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ˈbias-ˌwise, -way-s, adv.
In a slanting manner, aslant, obliquely; also fig.
1540T. Raynalde Birth Man i. iii. (1634) 22 Two Byasswise descending muscles. 1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 111 A litle altering of the one side, maketh the boul to run biasse waies. c1618J. Smyth Berkeleys (1883) 149 A man that from the font to the grave..walked alwayes byaswise. 1660Hexham Dutch Dict., Schuyn, crosse, Oblique, or Byas wise. 1702W. J. tr. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xxxvii. 148 The roof..was not flat, but rising Bias way. 1888M. W. Hungerford Mrs. Vereker II. xi. 129 They have pulled it bias-wise, and cross-wise, and straight-wise. |