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Feeding on frogs. Quart. Rev.

or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25. It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lig…

A wide sleeve, once worn by women.

A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.

A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi.

Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

A bishop's seat or see.

Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.

Bishoplike; episcopal. [Obs.]

A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.

A bookseller's shop. [Eng.]

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]

The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

eparate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down. Chop off your hand, and it to the king. Shak.

A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

One who bandies words or is very argunentative. [Jocular] Shak.

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.