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es 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.

To shape again.

ship again; to put on board of a vessel a second time; to send on a second voyage; as, to reship bonded merchandise.

The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshippped.

One who reships.

Residence; abode. [Obs.] Bacon.

Resident; present in a place. [Obs.] In which her kingdom's throne is chiefly resiant. Spenser.

inuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time. At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. In no fixed place the happy souls reside. Dryden.

The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year. The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. Sir M. Hale.

In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.