BOTCH, boch, _n._ a swelling on the skin: a clumsy patch: ill-finished
work.--_v.t._ to patch or mend clumsily: to put together unsuitably or
unskilfully.--_ns._ BOTCH'ER, one who botches; BOTCH'WORK,
BOTCH'ERY.--_adj._ BOTCH'Y, marked with or full of botches. [From root of
BOSS.]
BOTFLY. See BOTS.
BOTH, b[=o]th, _adj._ and _pron._ the two: the one and the other.--_conj._
as well: on the one side. [Ice. _bathi_, Ger. _beide_; A.S. _bâ_; cf. L.
_am-bo_, Gr. _am-ph[=o]_, Sans. _ubha_, orig. _ambha_.]
BOTHER, bo_th_'[.e]r, _v.t._ to perplex or tease.--_ns._ BOTH'ER;
BOTHER[=A]'TION.--_adj._ BOTH'ERSOME. [Murray notes that the word first
appeared in the writings of Irish-born men, as Dr Sheridan, Swift, and
Sterne. Perh. from Ir. _buaidhirt_, trouble.]
BOTHY, BOTHIE, both'i, _n._ a humble cottage or hut: a temporary house for
men engaged in some common work, esp. the barely furnished quarters
provided for farm-servants, generally unmarried men, in the eastern and
north-eastern counties of Scotland.--The BOTHY SYSTEM is apparently
economical, but is detrimental to health and to morality.
BOTONÉ, BOTTONY, bot'un-i, _adj._ (_her._) having buds or knobs at the
extremity, applied to a cross having each arm terminated in three buds,
like trefoil. [O. Fr. See BUTTON.]
BO-TREE, b[=o]'-tr[=e], _n._ the name given in Ceylon to the Pipal or
Peepul of India (_Ficus religiosa_), held sacred by the Buddhists, and
planted close by every temple. [Singh. _bo_, from Pali _bodhi_, perfect
knowledge.]
BOTS, BOTTS, botz, _n._ the larvæ of the botfly found in the flesh and in
the intestines of animals.--_n._ BOT'FLY, a family of dipterous insects,
resembling the blue-bottle fly, which deposit their eggs on cattle. [Ety.
unknown; hardly conn. with BITE.]
BOTTINE, bot'[=e]n, _n._ a high boot, a half-boot. [Fr., dim. of _botte_, a
boot.]
BOTTLE, bot'l, _n._ a bundle of hay.--TO LOOK FOR A NEEDLE IN A BOTTLE OF
HAY, to engage in a hopeless se_arch._ [O. Fr. _botel_.]
BOTTLE, bot'l, _n._ a hollow vessel for holding liquids: the contents of
such a vessel: the habit of drinking.--_v.t._ to enclose in bottles.--_n._
BOTT'LE-CHART, one which purports to show the track of sealed bottles
thrown from ships into the sea.--_p.adj._ BOTT'LED, enclosed in bottles:
shaped or protuberant like a bottle: kept in restraint.--_ns._
BOTT'LE-GLASS, a coarse green glass used in the making of bottles;
BOTT'LE-GOURD, or _False Calabash_, a climbing, musky-scented Indian
annual, whose fruit is shaped like a bottle, an urn, or a club.--_adjs._
BOTT'LE-GREEN, dark green in colour, like bottle-glass.--BOTT'LE-HEAD,
BOTT'LE-NOSED, having a rounded prominent head, with a short snout, as a
certain genus of whale.--_ns._ BOTT'LE-HOLD'ER, one who attends upon a
boxer at a prize-fight, a backer or supporter generally; BOTT'LE-IMP, an
imp supposed to be confined in a bottle; BOTT'LE-WASH'ER, one whose
business it is to wash out the bottles, a factotum generally.--A
THREE-BOTTLE MAN, one who could drink three bottles without losing his
decorum.--TO BOTTLE OFF, to draw from the cask and put into bottles; TO
BOTTLE UP (one's wrath, &c.), to keep enclosed as in a bottle; TO BRING UP
ON THE BOTTLE, to rear an infant artificially rather than by the breast; TO
PASS THE BOTTLE, to make the drink go round; TO PASS THE BOTTLE OF SMOKE,
to acquiesce in some falsehood, to make pretence. [O. Fr. _bouteille_, dim.
of _botte_, a vessel for liquids--Low L. _butis_, a vessel.]
BOTTOM, bot'um, _n._ the lowest part of anything: that on which anything
rests or is founded: the sitting part of the human body: the foot of a
page, &c.: low land, as in a valley: the keel of a ship, hence the vessel
itself: the fundamental character of anything, as physical stamina,
financial resources, &c.: the portion of a wig hanging down over the
shoulder, as in 'full-bottom'--full-bottomed wig: (_Shak._) a ball of
thread.--_v.t._ to found or rest upon: (_Shak._) to wind round or
upon.--_adj._ BOTT'OMED.--_ns._ BOTT'OM-GLADE, a glade or open space in a
bottom or valley; BOTT'OM-GRASS (_Shak._) grass growing on bottom
lands.--_adj._ BOTT'OMLESS.--_n._ BOTT'OMRY, a contract by which money is
borrowed on the security of a ship or bottom.--BOTTOMLESS PIT--hell.--AT
BOTTOM, in reality.--FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE HEART, from the very heart.--TO
BE AT THE BOTTOM OF, to be the real origin of; TO STAND ON ONE'S OWN
BOTTOM, to be independent of; TO TOUCH BOTTOM, to reach the lowest point.
[A.S. _botm_; Ger. _boden_; conn. with L. _fundus_, bottom, Gael. _bonn_,
the sole.]
BOTTONY. See BOTONÉ.
BOUDOIR, b[=oo]d'war, _n._ a lady's private room. [Fr.--_bouder_, to pout,
to be sulky.]