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. 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.

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.

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. a bishop of a see which does not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction.

noun. 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. An old name for a woman's bustle.

transitive verb. To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth.

verb. 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. A piece that may be moved only diagonally.

noun. penis (see bash the bishop).

noun. sex toy.

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

"One can make a meta-linguistic move and use paraphrases like ˜the bishop mentioned first™ and the ˜bishop mentioned second™, but precisely which bishop was mentioned first?"