1. Adjective
Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
2. Adjective
The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
3. Adjective
Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
4. Noun
the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides; "the obverse of this issue"
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