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3 definitions found 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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