[L. verso (sc. folio leaf), abl. sing. neut. of versus, pa. pple. of vertĕre to turn. So F. and Pg. verso.]
1. The back of a leaf in a manuscript or printed book; the side presented to the eye when the leaf has been turned over. Also abbrev. v., v0.
The left-hand page of a book is the verso of that leaf, and faces the RECTO of the next.
1839. Halliwell, Maundevile, Introd. p. xiii. See f. 2, v0.
1850. Forshall & Madden, Wycliffite Bible, I. p. lxi. The verso commences with the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans.
1873. Rep. Brit. Assoc., I. 43. Sines, cosines, and secants are given on the versos of the pages in columns.
1898. Athenæum, 12 Nov., 676. The text begins on the verso of the title-page.
fig. 1873. J. Henry, Aeneidea, I. Pref. 77. It was not long before I had the verso of this agreeable recto of one leaf of my library life.
2. The reverse of a coin, medal or the like.
1891. Cent. Dict.
1914. P. E. Newberry, in Anc. Egypt, 6. On the verso of the same palette there is a scene [etc.].
