A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
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.
A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
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 nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
To make a bishop.
To provide with bishops.
To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
Any similar head of a religion.
nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).
An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.
An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
To act as or like a pope.
To convert to Roman Catholicism.