reserve

[Fr., from Sp. reserva; Ital. riserva, riserba.] [RESERVE, v.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of reserving, keeping back, or with 2. That which is reserved, kept back, or retained holding; reservation. for future use or disposal. "The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other ve el for a continual supply."-Til lots on. 3. Something kept back or withheld in the mind from disclosure; a reservation. "However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations, and with a salvo to his own private judgment."- Add is on : Freeholder. 4. The habit of keeping back or restraining the feelings; self-imposed restraint in speaking or act ing; closene or caution in speaking or acting; caution or coldne toward others. 5. An exception or reservation; anything excepted. "As if the thought were but a moment old, That I must yield myself without reserve ." Words worth: Excursion, bk. ii. *6. Prohibition. "Is knowledge so despised? Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?" Milton: P. L., v. 61. II. Technically : 1. Bank .: That proportion of the capital which is kept in hand to meet average liabilities, and which is therefore not employed in discounts or loans. "To help the Bank to keep a strong reserve now."-London Evening Standard. 2. Calico - print .: A method of calico-printing in which the white cloth is impre ed with figures in resist paste, and is afterward subjected first to a cold dye, as the indigo vat, and then to a hot dyebath, the effect being the production of white or colored spots upon a blue ground. Called also Resist-style. 3. Law: The same as RESERVATION (q. v.). 4. Military: (1) A body of troops kept for any emergency; that portion of an army drawn up for battle which is reserved to support the other lines as occasion requires. (2) Formerly applied to any troops that could be improvised for service if the field armies were destroyed. Now it refers rather to those soldiers who, after having enlisted for a certain period of service, have been a certain time with the colors, and then have been pa ed into the Reserve, in which they are at any time liable to be recalled to the colors until their full period of enlistment has expired. ( Eng . ) "The Queen's proclamation calling out the reserves."London Daily Telegraph . (3) A magazine of warlike stores situated between an army and its base of operations. 5. Theol.: The Discipline of the Secret. (See note F to Newman's Apol ., ed. 1873.) [DISCIPLINE, 8., (1).] "The principle of reserve is also advocated by an admirable writer in two numbers of the 'Tracts for the Times.'"-Card. Newman : Apologia (ed. 1873), p. 269. reserve-forces, s. pl. Mil.: Those troops which, by the terms of their engagement with the State, compulsory or otherwise, are liable to be at once recalled to the field army in case of war. In the United States the National Guard is subject to call for immediate duty. In Germany the men serve three years in the active army and four in the reserve; in France, four years in the army reserve and five years in the territorial or home service reserve. In England the reserves are composed of the Army reserve, that is, of men enlisted for twelve years, who have only pa ed a portion of that time with the colors, and of the Militia reserve who have agreed for an extra re taining fee to serve in the army, at home or abroad, if called out for duty. reserve-materials, s. pl. Bot.: Materials held in reserve by a plant till required at some particular part of the organism. When not immediately needed, a imilated substances are transported to reservoirs of reserve materials. ( Thomé.) IMG:content-0495.png:[blocks in formation] reserved-cases, s. pl. Roman Theol .: Certain sins, the power to absolve from which is reserved to some ecclesiastical superior, as the ordinary of a diocese, a prelate of a religious order, or the Pope, so that ordinary confe ors cannot deal with them. The sin may also have an ecclesiastical censure attached to it, as is generally the case with those reserved to the Pope. Only those cases are reserved where the sins are grievous, external, certain, and complete in their kind. In English and American dioceses very few cases are reserved, and those of extremely rare occurrence.