Bias

1. adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
2. 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.
3. n. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
4. n. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
5. n. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
6. a. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
7. a. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.