Reserve

re-zerv', v. [-served (-zervdO* -serv- ing.] To keep in store for future or other use to withhold from present use for another purpose to keep, retain, withhold. — n. Act of reserving or keeping back that which is reserved restraint of freedom in words or actions; a tract of land reserved or set apart for a particular purpose. (Mil.) A body of troops kept for an exigence. [OF., a reservation, reserver, L. reservare, to keep back $em:are, to keep.] — In reserve. In keeping for other or future use; in store.— Reserved'', -zervd',/). a. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; not free or frank; cautious; backward; cold: shy: cov; modest. — Reserv'edly, -ed-lY, adv.— Reserv'edne , «.—Reserv'- er, n. — Reservalion, rez-er-va's hun, n. Act of reserving, or keeping back something withheld a tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools. (Law.) A clause in an instrument by which something reserved out of the thing granted; a proviso. — Reserv'atory, -a-to-ri, n. A place in which things are reserved or kept. Reservoir', -er-vw6r', n. A place where anything kept in store, esp., a place where water collected and kept for use when wanted; a cistern; basin. [F. LL. reservatorivm]