bishop

(noun, verb)

noun

1. a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ

Definition categories: person, priest

2. port wine mulled with oranges and cloves

Definition categories: food

3. (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color

Definition categories: man–made, chessman

verb

1. (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.

2. (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).

3. (Christianity) To make a bishop.

4. (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.

5. (Britain, dialectal) To permit food (esp. milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quote below, of horses).

6. (by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.

7. (Britain, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.