(colloquial, humorous) To take a risk for the chance of some benefit or reward.

A Roman Catholic bishop without a diocese, taking his title from a place where there is no longer a bishop's see.

A sweet biscuit made of flour mixed with rice.

(historical) A preparation of meat, made with meal into a biscuit.

(organic chemistry) Any amino acid that has two amino groups and two carboxylic acid groups

(UK, wine) Can you pass the port, please?

The bird, Euplectes afer, native to sub-Saharan Africa.

(organic chemistry) The sesquiterpenoid ketone (6R)-3-methyl-6-[(2S)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]cyclohex-2-en-1-one

(Christianity) A bishop assigned in the Anglican Communion (and, until 1964, in Methodist churches) to an area that is not already organized under a bishop of a church.

(countable) A pear of a variety bred near Dymock in Gloucestershire, England, primarily for perry.