Bias (2)
Bi″as, a. 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. Shak.2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
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Bias (3)
Bi″as, adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
Bias (4)
Bi″as, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Biased (bī″ast); p. pr. & vb. n.Biasing.] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.Me it ha...
Biauriculate
Bi′au‐ric″u‐late (�), a. [Pref. bi- + auriculate.] 1. (Anat.) Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having two earlike projections ...
Biaxal
{ Bi‐ax″al (�), Bi‐ax″i‐al (�), } a. [Pref. bi- + axal, axial.] (Opt.) Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization. Brewster. — Bi‐ax″i‐al‐ly, adv.
Bib
Bib (�), n. [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.] 1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the ...
Bib (2)
{ Bib, Bibbe } (�), v. t. [L. bibere. See Beverage, and cf. Imbibe.] To drink; to tipple.This miller hath... bibbed ale.Chaucer.
Bib (3)
Bib, v. i. To drink; to sip; to tipple.He was constantly bibbing.Locke.
Bibacious
Bi‐ba″cious (�), a. [L. bibax, bibacis, fr. bibere. See Bib.] Addicted to drinking.
Bibacity
Bi‐bac″i‐ty (�), n. The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.
Bibasic
Bi‐ba″sic (�), a. [Pref. bi- + basic.] (Chem.) Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; — said of acids. See Dibasic.
Bibb
Bibb (bĭb), n. A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.
Bibber
Bib″ber (�), n. One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; — chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.
Bibble-babble
Bib″ble–bab″ble (�), n. [A reduplication of babble.] Idle talk; babble. Shak.
Bibbs
Bibbs (bĭbz), n. pl.(Naut.) Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.
Bibcock
Bib″cock′ (bĭb″kŏk), n. A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. Knight.
Bibelot
‖Bi′be‐lot″ (?), n. A small decorative object without practical utility.Her pictures, her furniture, and her bibelots. M. Crawford.
Bibirine
Bi‐bi″rine (�), n.(Chem.) See Bebeerine.
Bibitory
Bib″i‐to‐ry (�), a. Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.
Bible
Bi″ble (bī″b'l), n. [F. bible, L. biblia, pl., fr. Gr. βιβλία, pl. of βιβλίον, dim. of βίβλοσ, βύβλοσ, book, prop. Egyptian papyrus.] 1. A book. Chaucer.2. The Book by way of em...
Bibler
Bib″ler (bĭb″lẽr), n. [See Bib, v. t.] A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]
Biblical
Bib″li‐cal (bĭb″lĭ‐kal), a. Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.
Biblicality
Bib′li‐cal″i‐ty (–kăl″ĭ‐ty̆), n. The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject.
Biblically
Bib″li‐cal‐ly (�), adv. According to the Bible.
Biblicism
Bib″li‐cism (�), n. [Cf. F. biblicisme.] Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
Biblicist
Bib″li‐cist (�), n. One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.
Bibliograph
Bib″li‐o‐graph′ (�), n. Bibliographer.