{ Ob*tuse"-an`gled (?), ob*tuse"-an`gu*lar (?), } a. Having an obtuse
angle; as, an obtuse- angled triangle.
Ob*tuse"ly, adv. In an obtuse manner.
Ob*tuse"ness, n. State or quality of being obtuse.
Ob*tu"sion (&?;), n. [L. obtusio, from obtundere to blunt. See Obtund.]
1. The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.
2. The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the
senses. Harvey.
Ob*tu"si*ty (?), n. Obtuseness. Lond. Quart. Rev.
Ob*um"brant (?), a. [L. obumbrans, p. pr.] (Zoöl.) Overhanging; as,
obumbrant feathers.
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.
Ob`um*bra"tion (?), n. [L. obumbratio.] Act of darkening or obscuring.
[R.] Sir T. More.
Ob*un"cous (?), a. [L. obuncus; ob (see Ob-) + uncus hooked.] Hooked or
crooked in an extreme degree. Maunder.
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.
Ob*vers"ant (?), a. [L. obversans, p. pr. of obversari to hover before;
ob (see Ob-) + versare to move about.] Conversant; familiar. [Obs.]
Bacon.
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.
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.
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Ob*verse"ly (?), adv. In an obverse manner.
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.
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.