Reservance(n.) Reservation.
Reservation(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
Reservation(n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
Reservation(n.) A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
Reservation(n.) The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
Reservation(n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
Reservation(n.) A proviso.
Reservation(n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
Reservation(n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
Reservative(a.) Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.
Reserve(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
Reserve(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
Reserve(n.) That which is excepted; exception.
Reserve(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
Reserve(n.) 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.
Reserve(n.) 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.
Reserve(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Reserve(v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
Reserve(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
Reserve(v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.
Reserved(a.) Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
Reserved(a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.
Reserved(imp. & p. p.) of Reserve
Reserver(n.) One who reserves.
Reserving(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reserve
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