noun An 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.
noun A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
noun The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
noun Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
noun A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
noun The 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.
noun Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
noun A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.