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Entry 14 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Reserve

/(r?-z?rv")/ · Re·serve · IPA /ɹɪˈzɝv/
01 v. t. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
imp. & p. p. Reserved; p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving
  1. 1.
    To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
  2. 2.
    Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain; to make a reservation{7}.
    “Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble?” — Job xxxviii. 22,23.
    “Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.” — Swift.
  3. 3.
    To make an exception of; to except.[R.]
02 n. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
  1. 1.
    The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
    “However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.” — Addison.
  2. 2.
    That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
    “The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply.” — Tillotson.
  3. 3.
    That which is excepted; exception.
    “Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.” — Rogers.
  4. 4.
    Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
    “My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind.” — Prior.
    “The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.” — Hawthorne.
  5. 5.
    A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
  6. 6.
    A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.(Mil.)
  7. 7.
    Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.(Banking)
  8. 8.
    That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it;(Finance)
  9. 9.
    In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the recipient will get a prize if another should be disqualified.
  10. 10.
    A resist.(Calico Printing)
  11. 11.
    A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.