(n.) 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.
(n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an
object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
(n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the
waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
(n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
(a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
(a.) 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.
