These are the meanings of the letters HNSIOBUP when you unscramble them.
- Bishop (n.)
A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
- Bishop (n.)
A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
- Bishop (n.)
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
- Bishop (n.)
An old name for a woman's bustle.
- Bishop (n.)
In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
- Bishop (n.)
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
- Bishop (v. t.)
To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
- Bishop (v. t.)
To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
- Punish (v. t.)
To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.
- Punish (v. t.)
To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.
- Punish (v. t.)
To injure, as by beating; to pommel.
- Siphon (n.)
A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.
- Siphon (n.)
A siphon bottle.
- Siphon (n.)
A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.
- Siphon (n.)
A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
- Siphon (n.)
One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.
- Siphon (n.)
The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.
- Siphon (n.)
The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.
- Siphon (n.)
The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.
- Siphon (n.)
The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata.
- Siphon (v. t.)
To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.
- Unship (v. t.)
To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.
- Unship (v. t.)
To take out of a ship or vessel; as, to unship goods.