Bishop | |
1. n. alternative case form of bishop1, particularly as a title or term of address. | |
2. n. topics, en, Cities, Towns, California, USA, Georgia, USA, Illinois, USA, Maryland, USA, Texas, USA, West Virginia, USA | |
3. n. (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or no | |
4. n. (religion, obsolete) A similar official or chief priest in another religion. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker. | |
6. n. (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of (m, la, episcopus), supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc. | |
7. n. The chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day. | |
8. n. (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English. | |
9. n. Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds. | |
10. n. (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae. | |
11. n. (alcoholic beverages) A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port. | |
12. n. (US, archaic) A bustle. | |
13. n. (dialectal) A children's smock or pinafore. | |
14. v. (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church. | |
15. v. (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses). | |
16. v. (Christianity) To make a bishop. | |
17. v. (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops. | |
18. v. (dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses). | |
19. v. (by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth. | |
20. v. (colloquial) To murder by drowning. | |