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The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.

Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.

To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak.

s in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities (specifically called central reserve cities) are required to keep their reserve on hand in cash; banks in…

Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.

One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.

One who reserves.

A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia. [Eng.]

A small intercellular space, often containing Receiving reservoir (Water Works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.

One who reserves; a reserver.

To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

One who resets, or sets again.

To settle again. Swift.

Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.

A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, a cheese made in imitation of it.

Gruyère cheese.

The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.

Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion…

The language of the Siamese.