Bishop |
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. |
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Bishop |
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. |
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Bishop |
In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents. |
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Bishop |
A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer. |
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Bishop |
A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar. |
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Bishop |
An old name for a woman's bustle. |
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Bishop |
To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor. |
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Bishop |
To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth. |
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Bishop's cap |
A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. |
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Bishop sleeve |
A wide sleeve, once worn by women. |
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Bishop's length |
A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56. |
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Bishop's-weed |
An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. |
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Bishop's-weed |
Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria). |
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Bishop's-wort |
Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush. |
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Stool |
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. |
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Stool |
To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. |
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Stool |
A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses. |
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Stool |
A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels. |
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Stool |
A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. |
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Stool |
A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. |
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