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.
One who theologizes; a theologian.