Usually means: Altering horse teeth to deceive.
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  1. bishoping: Wiktionary
  2. Bishoping, bishoping: Dictionary.com
  3. Bishoping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  4. Bishoping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  5. bishoping: FreeDictionary.org

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  1. bishoping: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bishop as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bishop)

noun:  (Christianity) 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:  (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
noun:  (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
noun:  A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
noun:  (chess) 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:  (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
noun:  A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
noun:  A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
noun:  (US, archaic) A bustle.
noun:  (UK, dialectal, archaic) A children's smock or pinafore.
verb:  (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
verb:  (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
verb:  (Christianity) To make a bishop.
verb:  (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
verb:  (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
verb:  (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
verb:  (UK, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.
noun:  (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A locale in the United States.
noun:  A city in Inyo County, California; named for nearby Bishop Creek, itself named for early settler Samuel Addison Bishop.
noun:  A city in Texas; named for landowner F. Z. Bishop.
noun:  A town in Georgia; named for local landowner W. H. Bishop.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Illinois; named for landowner Henry Bishop.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Maryland.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Virginia and West Virginia.
noun:  A ghost town in Washington; named for two early settlers.
noun:  A self-propelled 25-pounder vehicle produced by the United Kingdom during World War II, so called from a supposed resemblance to a bishop's miter.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of bishop, particularly as a title or term of address. [(Christianity) 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.]
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