Category:Obverse

Ob*verse", a. Etym: [l. obversus, p.p. of obvertere. See obvert.]

Defn: having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the Top, as a leaf.

Obverse Ob"verse, n. Etym: [cf.F. obverse, obvers. See obverse, a.]

1. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription Upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

2. 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.