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bias

n. [F. biasis, perh. fr. LL. bifax two-faced; L. bis + facies face. See Bi-, and cf. Face.]1. A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. ()

Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. (Sir W. Scott.)

2. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination. ()

Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. (South.)

Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. (Locke.)

3. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. ()

4. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias. ()

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a. 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. (Shak.)

2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. ()

adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias. ()

v. t. To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. ()

Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. (De Quincey.)