Index of English words, starting with "ob"

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

(1) - Obversely (adv.) In an obverse manner.

(1) - Obversion (n.) The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception."
(2) - Obversion (n.) The act of turning toward or downward.

(1) - Obviate (v. t.) To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.
(2) - Obviate (v. t.) To meet in the way.