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Pope
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. [Obs.] Foxe.
2. The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
3. A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
4. A fish; the ruff. Pope Joan, a game at cards played on a round board with compartments. -- Pope's eye, the gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep. R. D. Blackmore. -- Pope's nose, the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See Uropygium.