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A learning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent inclination. Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. South. Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. Locke.

n Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.

An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.

A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. "Avoided as a blab." Milton. For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler. Bacon.

nder Blind. -- Blank verse. See under Verse. -- Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.

To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.

Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.

The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

ent of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom. "Sight of vernal bloom." Milton.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

th sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color. In blossom, having the blossoms open; in bloom.