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Webster 1913 Edition

(ŏb-vẽrs′)

Adj.

[L.

obversus

, p. p. of

obvertere

. See

Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

(ŏb′vẽrs)

Noun.

[Cf. F.

obverse

obvers

. See

Adj.

]

The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; – the other side being the

reverse

Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the

obverse

of the fact that there is no alternative belief.

H. Spencer.

Adj.

obvers'. In botany, having the base narrower than the top; as a leaf.