obvers'. In botany, having the base narrower than the top; as a leaf.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
The face of a coin; opposed to reverse.
1. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
2. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
3. Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
Front Roget’s Thesaurus §234
N. front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse, fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut*, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy
V. be in front, stand in front, front, face, confront, bend forwards, come to the front, come to the fore
Adj. fore, anterior, front, frontal
Adv. before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front
Phr. formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, "human face divine", imago animi vultus est indices oculi, "sea of upturned faces"
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