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Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.

A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay.

y in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. Dan. iv. 37. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. Franklin.

hotograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak.

That which protects or preserves from injury; a defense; a shield; a refuge. Let them rise up . . . and be your protection. Deut. xxxii. 38.

college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.

A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech. Less modest than the speech of prudes. Swift.

Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners. A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face. Garrick.

To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad u…

The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

by science or literature, although they were adept potters, weavers, and goldsmiths, and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing.

hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.

A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.

To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. Those things th…

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. Cruise.

A reserve force in the Turkish army, or a soldier of the reserve. See Army organization, above.

member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes. [U.S.] A few stood neutral, or declared in favor of the Regulators. Bancroft.