bias

Definitions

1. 1.A learning 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.
2. 2.A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
3. 3.A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias. See Bent.
4. 4.Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] Shak.
5. 5.Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
6. 6.In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
7. 7.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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference called?
• What is a slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias. See Bent called?
• What is inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] Shak called?
• What is in a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias called?