Bia

¹

[ bahy-uh ]

noun

1. the ancient Greek personification of force: daughter of Pallas and Styx and sister of Cratus, Nike, and Zelos.

BIA

²

1. Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Example Sentences

Now, it is done—now, you are chained—Bia has finished the work—I, Ba!

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Another derivation is Al'bia, eldest of the fifty daughters of Diocle'sian king of Syria.

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The bite of a mad dog produces a very dreadful disease, called Hydropho'bia.

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Farther west are the Tano and Bia rivers, which empty their waters into the Assini lagoon.

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Captain Bia succumbed to smallpox and the column encountered every conceivable hardship.

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