reserve 
Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have 
reserved against the time of trouble? Joh xxxviii. K, 23. 
Take eacli man's censure, but reserve thy judgement. 
Shale., Hamlet, i. 3.69. 
His great powers of painting he reserves for events of 
which the slightest details are interesting. 
Macaulay, History. 
2f. To preserve ; keep safe ; guard. 
One in the prison. 
That should by private order else have died, 
I have reserved alive. Shalr., M. for M., v. 1. 472. 
In the other two destructions, by deluge and earth- 
quake, it is farther to be noted that the remnant of peo- 
ple which hap to be reserved are commonly ignorant. 
Bacon, Vicissitudes of Things (ed. 1887). 
At Alexandria, where two goodly pillars of Tlieban mar- 
ble reserve the memory of the place. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 96. 
Farewel, my noble Friend, cheer up, and reserve your- 
self for better Days. Umcell, Letters, ii. 76. 
3. To make an exception of; except, as from 
the conditions of an agreement. 
War. Shall our condition stand ? 
Char. It shall; 
Only resented, you claim no interest 
In any of our towns of garrison. 
Shale., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4. 167. 
The old Men, Women, and sicke Folkes were resented 
from this Tribute. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 870. 
= By n. 1. Reserve, Retain, etc. See keep. 
reserve (re-zerv'), . [< OF. reserve, F. reserve 
= Sp. Pg. reserva = It. riserlxi, riserva, a store, 
reserve; from the verb: see reserve, v.] 1. The 
act of reserving or keeping back. 2. That 
which is reserved or kept for other or future 
use ; that which is retained from present use 
or disposal. 
Where all is due, make no reserve. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., i. 1. 
Still hoarding up, most scandalously nice, 
Amidst their virtues, a reserve of vice. 
Pope, EpiL to Rowe's Jane Shore. 
3. Something in the mind withheld from dis- 
closure ; a reservation. 
However any one may concur in the general scheme, 
it is still with certain reserves and deviations. 
Addigon, Freeholder. (Latham.) 
4. Self-imposed restraint of freedom in words 
or actions; the habit of keeping back or re- 
straining the feelings; a certain closeness or 
coldness toward others; caution in personal 
behavior. 
Upon my arrival I attributed that reserve to modesty, 
which I now find has its origin in pride. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, iv. 
Fasting and prayer sit well upon a priest, 
A decent caution and reserve at least. 
Coirper, Hope, 1. 404. 
Instead of scornful pity or pure scorn, 
Such fine reserve and noble reticence. 
Tennyson, Oeraint. 
5. An exception ; something excepted. 
Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. 
Dr. J. Rogers. 
Is knowledge so despised, 
Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste? 
Milton, P. L., v. 61. 
In the minds of almost all religious persons, even in the 
most tolerant countries, the duty of toleration is admitted 
with tacit reserves. J. S. Mill, On Liberty, i. 
6. In Inn, reservation. 7. In banking, that 
part of capital which is retained in order to 
meet average liabilities, and is therefore not 
employed in discounts or temporary loans. See 
bank*, 4. 
They [the precious metals] are employed as reserves in 
banks, or other hands, forming the guarantee of paper 
money and cheques, and thus becoming the instrument of 
the wholesale payments of society. 
Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 865. 
8. Milit. : () The body of troops, in an army 
drawn up for battle, reserved to sustain the 
other lines as occasion may require ; a body of 
troops kept for an exigency, (fc) That part 
of the fighting force of a country which is in 
general held back, and upon which its defense 
is thrown when its regular forces are seriously 
weakened or defeated: as, the naval reserve, in 
countries where compulsory service exists, as Germany, 
the reserve denotes technically that body of troops in the 
standing army who have served in the line, before their 
entry into the landwehr. The period of service is about 
four years. (<) A magazine of warlike stores sit- 
uated between an army and its base of opera- 
tions. 9. In theol., the system according to 
which only that part of the truth is set before 
the people which they are regarded as able to 
comprehend or to receive with benefit : known 
also as economy. Compare discipline of the se- 
cret, under (lisi'i/iliue. 'iO. In calico-printing 
and other processes, same as retixt, 2. 11. 
Same as rcxerratiun, :i Connecticut Reserve, 
Connecticut Western Reserve, <>r Western Reserve, 
the name given to the region, lying south of Lake Erie 
5101 
and in the present State of Ohio, which the State (if C"ii- 
necticut, in ceding its claims upon western lands, reserved 
to itself for the purposes of a school fund. In reserve, 
in store ; in keeping for other or future use. Reserve 
air. Same as residual air (which see, under air'). 
Without reserve. See the quotation. 
When a sale is announced as without reserve whether 
the announcement be contained in the written partic- 
ulars or be made orally by the auctioneer that, accord- 
ing to all the cases, both at law and in equity, means not 
merely that the property will be peremptorily sold, but 
that neither the vendor nor any one acting for him will 
bid at the auction. Bateman. 
= Syn. 1. Retention. 4. Restraint, distance. 
reserved (re-zervd'), p. a. 1. Kept for an- 
other or future use ; retained ; kept back. 
He hath reasons reserved to himself, which our frailty 
cannot apprehend. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 667. 
2. Showing reserve in behavior; backward in 
communicating one's thoughts; not open, free, 
or frank; distant; cold; shy; coy. 
The man I trust, if shy to me, 
Shall find me as reserv'd as he. 
Cowper, Friendship. 
New England's poet, soul reserved and deep, 
November nature with a name of May. 
Lowell, Agassiz, iii. 5. 
3. Retired; secluded. [Rare.] 
They [the pope or ruffe] will usually lie, abundance of 
them together, in one reserved place, where the water is 
deep and runs quietly. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler (ed. Major), p. 236, i. 15. 
4. In decorative art, left of the color of the 
background, as when another color is worked 
upon the ground to form a new ground, the 
pattern being left of the first color Case re- 
served. See cosei. Reserved case, in the Rom. Cath. 
Ch., a sin the power to absolve from which is reserved to 
the Pope or his legate, the ordinary of the diocese, or a 
prelate of a religious order, other confessors not being 
allowed to give absolution. A sin, to be reserved, must 
be external (one of word or deed), and sufficiently proved. 
No sin is reserved in the case of a person in articulo mor- 
tis. Reserved list, in the liritish navy, a list of officers 
put on half-pay, and removed from active service, but 
liable to be called out on the contingency of there being 
an insufficiency of officers for active service. Reserved 
power, in Scots law, a reservation made in deeds, settle- 
ments, etc. Reserved powers are of different sorts : as, a 
reserved power of burdening a property ; a reserved potter 
to revoke or recall a settlement or other deed. Reserved 
powers, in U. S. const, law, powers pertaining to sover- 
eignty, but not delegated to a representative body ; more 
specifically, those powers of the people which are not 
delegated to the United States by the Constitution of the 
country, but remain with the respective States. The na- 
tional government possesses no powers but such as have 
been delegated to it. The States have all that they in- 
herited from the British Parliament, except such as they 
have surrendered, either by delegation to the United 
States, or by prohibition, in their respective constitu- 
tions or in the Constitution of the United States. = Syn. 
1. Excepted, withheld. 2. Restrained, cautious, uncom- 
municative, unsocial, unsociable, taciturn. 
reservedly (re-zer'ved-li), adv. In a reserved 
manner ; with reserve ; without openness or 
frankness; cautiously; coldly. 
He speaks reservedly, but he speaks with force. Pope. 
reservedness (re-zer'ved-nes), n. The char- 
acter of being reserved; closeness; lack of 
frankness, openness, or freedom. 
A certain reserv'dnesse of naturall disposition, and morall 
discipline learnt out of the noblest Philosophy. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
So much reservedness is a fault. 
Boyle, Excellence of Theology (1665), 8 v. 
reservee (rez-er-ve'), n. [< F. reserve, pp. of 
reserrer, reserve : see reserre.~] In law, one to 
whom anything is reserved. 
reserver (re-zer'ver), n. One who or that which 
reserves. 
reservist (re-zer'vist), H. [<F. "reserviste ; as 
reserve + -ist.] A soldier who belongs to the 
reserve. [Recent.] 
The town was full of the military reserve, out for the 
French autumn manoeuvres, and the reservists walked 
speedily and wore their formidable great-coats. 
R. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 172. 
It is a significant fact that, under the French mobilisa- 
tion scheme, in the event of the anticipation of immediate 
war, all reservists and persons belonging to the territorial 
army of French India(phrases which include a large num- 
ber of the natives) are at once to leave for Diego Suarez 
in Madagascar. 
Sir C. W. Dillce, Probs. of Greater Britain, viii. 
reservoir (rez'er-vwor), . [< F. reservoir, a 
storehouse, reservoir : see reservatory. Doublet 
of reservatory.'] 1. A place where anything is 
kept in store : usually applied to a large recep- 
tacle for fluids or liquids, as gases or oils. 
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store 
Sees but a backward steward for the poor ; 
This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, 
The next a fountain, spouting through his heir. 
Pope, Moral Essays, iii. 178. 
What is his IGod's] creation less 
Than a capacious reservoir of means 
Form'd for his use, and ready at his will '! 
Cowper, Task, ii. 201. 
reshipment 
The tiy-wheel is a vast reservoir into which the engine 
pours its energy, sudden floods alternating with droughts ; 
but these succeed each other so rapidly, and the area of 
the reservoir is so vast, that its level remains uniform. 
R. S. Ball, Exper. Mechanics, p. 267. 
Specifically 2. A place where water collects 
naturally or is stored for use when wanted, as 
to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city, or for 
any other purpose. 
There is not a spring or fountain but are well provided 
with huge cisterns and reservoirs of rain and snow water. 
Addison. 
Here was the great basin of the Nile that received every 
drop of water, even from the passing shower to the roar- 
ing mountain torrent that drained from Central Africa 
toward the north. This was the great reservoir of the 
Nile. Sir S. W. Baker, Heart of Africa, p. 253. 
3. In anat., a receptacle. See recrptaculunt. 
4. Inbot. : (a) One of the passages or cavities 
found in many plant-tissues, in which are se- 
creted and stored resins, oils, mucilage, etc. 
More frequently called receptacle. DC Bary, 
Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 202. (6) A seed or 
any organ of a plant in which surplus assimi- 
lated matter (reserve material) is stored up for 
subsequent use Mucilage-reservoirs. Seomtia- 
lage. Reservoir Of Fecquet. Same as reeeptamlum 
chyli (which see, under receptaculum). 
reservoir (rez'er-vwor), r. t. [< reservoir, M.] 
To furnish with a reservoir; also, to collect and 
store in a reservoir. 
Millions of pools of oil have been lost, owing to the in- 
efficient way in which it is reservoired and stored. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LVHI. 62. 
reservor (re-zer'vpr), ii. [< reserve + -o-l.] 
In law, one who reserves. Story. 
reset 1 (re-sef), . [< ME. reset, etc., < OF. rc- 
cet, receit, etc. : see receipt, .] If. Same as re- 
ceipt, 5, 6. 2. In Scots law, the receiving and 
harboringof an outlaw or a criminal. Reset of 
theft, the offense of receiving and keeping goods know- 
ing them to be stolen, and with an intention to conceal 
and withhold them from the owner. 
reset 1 (re-set'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. resetted, ppr. 
resetting. [< ME. reseten, etc.,< OF. receter, etc., 
receive: see receipt, v.~] If. Same as receipt. 
2. In Scots law, to receive and harbor (an out- 
law or criminal) ; receive (stolen goods). 
We shall see if an English hound is to harbour and reset 
the Southrons here. Scott. 
Gif ony ydil men, that has not to live of thare awin to 
leif apon, be rrsett within the lande . . . 
Quoted in Ribton.Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 338. 
reset 2 (re-set'), v. t. and i. [< re- + sefl-.~] To 
set again, in any sense of the word set. 
reset' 2 (re-set'), n. [< resetf, r.] 1 . The act of 
resetting. 2. In printing, matter set over 
again. 
resettable (re-set'a-bl), . [< reset* + -able.'} 
Capable of being reset. 
Cups . . . with gems . . . 
Moveable and resettable at will. 
Tennyson, Lover's Tale, iv. 
resetter 1 (re-set'er), . [< reset 1 + -er 1 .] In 
Scots law, a receiver of stolen goods ; also, one 
who harbors a criminal. 
I thought him an industrious, peaceful man if he 
turns resetter of idle companions and night-walkers, the 
place must be rid of him. Scoff, Abbot, xxxv. 
Wicked thieves, oppressors, and peacebreakers and re- 
setters of theft. 
Ribton-Tumer, Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 349. 
resetted (re-set'er), . [< reset* + -er*.] One 
who resets or places again. 
resettle (re-set'l), v. [< re- + settle'*,'] I. trans. 
To settle again; specifically, to install again, 
as a minister in a parish. 
Will the house of Austria yield . . . the least article 
of strained and even usurped prerogative, to resettle the 
minds of those princes in the alliance who are alarmed at 
the consequences of ... the emperor's death? 
Swift, Conduct of the Allies. 
II. intrant. To become settled again; spe- 
cifically, to be installed a second time or anew 
in a parish. 
resettlement (re-set'1-ment), n. [< resettle + 
-went.] The act of resettling, or the. process 
or state of being resettled, in any sense. 
resh 1 (resh), a. [Origin obscure. Cf. rnrW/ 1 .] 
Fresh; recent. Halliwell. 
resh 2 (resh), . A frequent dialectal variant 
of *;/!. 
reshape (re-shap'), c. t. [< re- + shape.'] To 
shape again ; give a new shape to. 
reship (re-ship'), v. t. [< re- + ship.'] To ship 
again : as, goods res/tipped to Chicago. 
reshipment (ro-ship'ment), n. [< reship + 
-ment.~\ 1. The act of shipping a second time; 
specifically, the shipping for exportation of 
what has been imported. 2. That which is 
reshipped. 
