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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIAS (from the Fr. biais, of unknown origin; the derivation from See also:Lat. bifax, two-faced, is wrong)  , something oblique or slanting . The See also:term is used especially of a piece of See also:cloth cut obliquely across the texture, or of a seam of two such pieces brought together; and in the See also:game of See also:bowls (q.v.) it is applied alike to the one-sided construction of the bowl, flattened on one See also:side and protruding on the other, and to the slanting See also:line the bowl takes when thrown . The figurative sense of the word, See also:prejudice or undue leaning to one side of a subject, is derived from this See also:bowling term .

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