bishop
noun
[ ˈbɪʃəp ]
• a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.
• an African weaver bird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage.
• a chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a mitre, that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two bishops, one moving on white squares and the other on black.
• mulled and spiced wine.
Origin:
Old English biscop, bisceop, based on Greek episkopos ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + -skopos ‘-looking’.
