[ob.verse] adj [L obversus, fr. pp. of obvertere to turn toward, fr. ob- toward + vertere to turn--more at ob-, worth] (ca. 1656) 1: facing the observer or opponent
2: having the base narrower than the top "an ~ leaf"
3: constituting the obverse of something: opposite -- ob.verse.ly adv
[2]ob.verse n (1658) 1: the side of a coin or currency note bearing the chief device and lettering; broadly: a front or principal surface
2: a counterpart having the opposite orientation or force "their rise was merely the ~ of the Empire's fall --A. J. Toynbee"; also: opposite 1 "joy and its ~, sorrow"
3: a proposition inferred immediately from another by denying the opposite of what the given proposition affirms "the ~ of "all A is B" is "no A is not B""