Bishop
- n. An old name for a woman’s bustle.
- n. A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
- n. 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.
- n. In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
- n. A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop’s miter; — formerly called archer.
- n. A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.