1. (n.) The face of a coin with the principal image or inscription; -- the other side being the reverse\.

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

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

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