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1.nounAn 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.
2.nounThe holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
3.nounAny watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
4.nounA chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
5.nounThe 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.
6.nounAny of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
7.nounA ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
8.nounA sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
9.nounA bustle.
10.nounA children's smock or pinafore.
11.verbTo act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
12.verbTo make a bishop.
13.verbTo provide with bishops.
14.verbTo permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
15.verb(by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.