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- English Word Bishop Definition 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.
- English Word Bishop Definition In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
- English Word Bishop Definition A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
- English Word Bishop Definition A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
- English Word Bishop Definition An old name for a woman's bustle.
- English Word Bishop Definition To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
- English Word Bishop Definition To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
- English Word Bishop sleeve Definition A wide sleeve, once worn by women.
- English Word Bishop's cap Definition A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort.
- English Word Bishop's length Definition A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.
- English Word Bishop's-weed Definition An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi.
- English Word Bishop's-weed Definition Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria).
- English Word Bishop's-wort Definition Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.
- English Word Bishop-stool Definition A bishop's seat or see.
- English Word Bishopdom Definition Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.
- English Word Bishoped Definition of Bishop
- English Word Bishoped Definition of Bishop
- English Word Bishoping Definition of Bishop
- English Word Bishoping Definition of Bishop
- English Word Bishoplike Definition Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.
- English Word Bishoply Definition Bishoplike; episcopal.
- English Word Bishoply Definition In the manner of a bishop.
- English Word Bishopric Definition A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
- English Word Bishopric Definition The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter.
- English Word Bisie Definition To busy; to employ.
- English Word Bisilicate Definition A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.
- English Word Bisk Definition Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.
- English Word Bisk Definition See Bisque.
- English Word Bismare Definition Alt. of Bismer
- English Word Bismer Definition Shame; abuse.