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Reserve \Re*serve"\, n. [F. r['e]serve.]
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. 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. That which is excepted; exception.
Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a
reserve. --Rogers.
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. 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. (Mil.) 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.
7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
{In reserve}, in keeping for other or future use; in store;
as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has
evidence or arguments in reserve.
{Reserve air}. (Physiol.) Same as {Supplemental air}, under
{Supplemental}.
Syn: Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness;
reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness;
modesty.