01 a. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
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Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
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3 senses · 2 variants
Webster, 1913
Obverse
02 n. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
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The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
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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.