perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or.different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to.A common species is one of the botflies of the horse.In tropical America one species sometimes lives
This crossword contains the following list of questions:
- 1. To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.
- 2. To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.
- 3. That may be afforded.
- 4. Anything given as a help; bestowal.
- 5. To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
- 6. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- 7. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
- 8. A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
- 9. A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.
- 10. To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
- 11. Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
- 12. A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.
- 13. Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
- 14. Pathogeny.
- 15. A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.