3. To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.

Ladies who patched both sides of their faces.

Spectator.

4. To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange

in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a

truce. "If you'll patch a quarrel." Shak.

Patch"er (?), n. One who patches or botches. Foxe.

Patch"er*y (?), n. Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.

[R.] Shak.

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