Turned toward (one); facing: opposed to reverse, and applied in numismatics to that side of a coin or medal which bears the head or more important inscription or device.In botany, having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.n. In numismatics, the face or principal side of a coin or medal, as distinguished from the other side, called the reverse. See numismatics, and cuts under maravedi, medallion, and merk.n. Hence A second aspect of the same fact; a correlative proposition identically implying another.n. Specifically, in logic, the contranominal of the inverse of a proposition.