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Webster 1913 Edition

(pōp)

Noun.

[AS.

pāpa

, L.

papa

father, bishop. Cf.

Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.

[Obs.]

Foxe.

The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See

under

A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

(Zool.)

A fish; the ruff.

Noun.

[Low L. papa.]

The bishop of Rome, the head of the catholic church.

A small fish, called also a ruff.