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.

• 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.
• 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.

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