2. The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the senses. Harvey.
Obtusity
(Ob*tu"si*ty) n. Obtuseness. Lond. Quart. Rev.
Obumbrant
(Ob*um"brant) a. [L. obumbrans, p. pr.] (Zoöl.) Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers.
Obumbrate
(Ob*um"brate) v. t. [L. obumbratus, p. p. of obumbrare to overshadow, cloud; ob + umbrare
to shade.] To shade; to darken; to cloud. [R.] Howell.
Obumbration
(Ob`um*bra"tion) n. [L. obumbratio.] Act of darkening or obscuring. [R.] Sir T. More.
Obuncous
(Ob*un"cous) a. [L. obuncus; ob (see Ob-) + uncus hooked.] Hooked or crooked in an
extreme degree. Maunder.
Obvention
(Ob*ven"tion) n. [L. obvention, fr. obvenire to come before or in the way of, to befall; ob
(see Ob-) + venire to come: cf.F. obvention.] The act of happening incidentally; that which happens
casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [Obs.] "Tithes and other obventions." Spenser.
Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions.
Fuller. Obversant
(Ob*vers"ant) a. [L. obversans, p. pr. of obversari to hover before; ob (see Ob-) + versare
to move about.] Conversant; familiar. [Obs.] Bacon.
Obverse
(Ob*verse") a. [L. obversus, p. p. of obvertere. See Obvert.] Having the base, or end next
the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
Obverse
(Ob"verse) n. [Cf.F. obverse, obvers. See Obverse, a.]
1. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; — the other side being the
reverse.
2. Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two
possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief.
H. Spencer.
Obversely
(Ob*verse"ly) adv. In an obverse manner.
Obversion
(Ob*ver"sion) n. [L. obversio a turning towards.]
1. The act of turning toward or downward.
2. (Logic) 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." Bain.
Obvert
(Ob*vert") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Obverting.] [L. obvertere; ob (see
Ob-) + vertere to turn. See Verse.] To turn toward.
If its base be obverted towards us.
I. Watts. Obviate
(Ob"vi*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obviated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Obviating.] [L. obviare; ob (see
Ob-) + viare to go, fr. via way. See Voyage.]
