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