Bias
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (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.
(2): (n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
(3): (n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
(4): (a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
(5): (v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
(6): (n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
(7): (a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
(8): (adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
One of the seven wise men of Greece, born at Priene, in Ionia; lived in the 6th century B.C.; many wise sayings are ascribed to him; was distinguished for his indifference to possessions, which moth and rust can corrupt, and thieves break through and steal.
