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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reserve \Re*serve"\ (r?-z?rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reserved}.
(z?rvd");p. pr & vb n. {Reserving}.] [F. r['e]server, L.
reservare reservatum pref. re- re- + servare to keep See
{Serve}.]
1. To keep back to retain; not to deliver, make over or
disclose. ``I have reserved to myself nothing.'' --Shak.
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. --Gen. xxvii. 35.
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. To make an exception of to except. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reserved \Re*served"\ (-z?rvd"), a.
1. Kept for future or special use or for an exigency; as
reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or
cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings;
not free or frank.
To all obliging, yet reserved to all --Walsh.
Nothing reserved or sullen was to see --Dryden.
-- {Re*serv"ed*ly} (r?-z?rv"?d-l?), adv --
{Re*serv"ed*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reserved
adj 1: set aside for the use of a particular person or party [ant:
{unreserved}]
2: marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually
reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria
Sackville-West [ant: {unreserved}]
3: cool and formal in manner [syn: {restrained}, {reticent}, {unemotional}]
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