bishop

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.
• noun Games A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.
• noun Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An overseer: once applied to Christ in the New Testament.
• noun In the earliest usage of the Christian church, a spiritual overseer, whether of a local church or of a number of churches; a ruler or director in the church. See elder and presbyter.
• noun From an early time, an overseer over a number of local churches; particularly, in the Greek, Oriental, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches, the title of the highest order in the ministry. See episcopacy.
• noun A name formerly given to a chief priest of any religion.
• noun A name given in the United States about 1850 to a woman's bustle.
• noun A hot drink made with bitter oranges, cloves, and port wine.
• noun In entomology: A name of various heteropterous hemipterous insects, also called bishop's-miters. They injure fruit by piercing it, and emit an intolerable odor.
• noun A name of the lady-birds, the small beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.
• noun One of the pieces or men in chess, having its upper part carved into the shape of a miter. Formerly called archer. See chess.
• noun A bishop in relation to his comprovincial bishops and their archbishop or metropolitan. This title is used of the other bishops of the Church of England in relation to the archbishops.
• To administer the rite of confirmation to; admit solemnly into the church; confirm.
• To confirm (anything) formally.
• To appoint to the office of bishop.
• To let (milk, etc.) burn while cooking: in allusion to the proverb, “The bishop has put his foot in it.”
• [Supposed to be from Bishop, the name of a horse-dealer.] In farriery, to make (an old horse) look like a young one, or to give a good appearance to (a bad horse) in order to deceive purchasers.
• [From a man named Bishop, who in 1831 drowned a boy in order to sell his body for dissection. Cf. burke.] To murder by drowning.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
• noun A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
• noun In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
• noun (R. C. Ch.) a bishop of a see which does not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction.
• noun (R. C. Ch.) a term officially substituted in 1882 for bishop in partibus.
• noun See under Bench.
• noun In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
• noun A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
• noun A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
• noun United States An old name for a woman's bustle.
• transitive verb (Far.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive, obsolete To make (a horse) seem younger, by cutting its teeth short, then scooping out an oval cavity in the corner nippers and burning it black with a hot iron.
• noun A high ranking official in the Catholic church who governs a diocese, or a similar official in other denominations and religions. (Occasionally abbreviated as Bp. when used as a title.)
• noun chess A piece that may be moved only diagonally.
• noun slang penis (see bash the bishop).
• noun slang sex toy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
• noun port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
• noun a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ