Vocabulary : Obtusity to Obversion
Obtusity : Obtuseness.
Obumbrant : Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers.
Obumbrate : To shade; to darken; to cloud.
Obumbration : Act of darkening or obscuring.
Obuncous : Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
Obvention : The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.
Obversant : Conversant; familiar.
Obverse : Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf. ;; The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse. ;; Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
Obversely : In an obverse manner.
Obversion : The act of turning toward or downward. ;; 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."
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