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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pope n.
 1. Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. [Obs.]
 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. Zool. 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.
 to be more Catholic than the Pope to adhere more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine; -- usually used in a negative sense to mean, to be excessively pious.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pope's nose
      n : the tail of a dressed fowl [syn: parson's nose]