Bible Dictionaries
Obverse

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Obverse'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​o/obverse.html. 1828.