adv. Obs. In a slanting manner, aslant, obliquely; also fig.
1540. Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, I. iii. (1634), 22. These two Byasswise descending muscles meete together in the middle region of the belly.
1551. Recorde, Cast. Knowl. (1556), 111. A litle altering of the one side, maketh the boul to run biasse waies.
c. 1618. J. Smyth, Berkeleys (1883), 149. A man that from the font to the grave … walked alwayes byaswise.
1660. Hexham, Dutch Dict., Schuyn, crosse, Oblique, or Byas wise.
1702. W. J., trans. Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, xxxvii. 148. The roof … was not flat, but rising Bias way.
