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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Obverse

Ob-vĕrse', a.

adjective

(14), a. [Lat. obversus, p. p. of obvertere; Fr. obverse. See OBVERT.] (Bot.) Having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.

ŏb'vĕrse, n.

noun

n. [Fr. obverse and obvers. See supra.]

  1. The face of a coin, having the principal image or inscription upon it; also, a projecting image or relief, as opposed to the corresponding depressed impression:—opposed to reverse.
  2. Any thing necessarily involved in, or answering to, another. “The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief.” H. Spencer.