n. An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a. [1913 Webster]

a. Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. préservation. ] The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give us particulars of thy preservation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. préservatif. ] Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which preserves, or has the power of preserving; a presevative agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

To wear tablets as preservatives against the plague. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Preservative. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Preservatories 1. A preservative. [ Obs. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Preserved p. pr. & vb. n. Preserving. ] [ F. préserver, from L. prae before + servare to save, preserve; cf. L. praeservare to observe beforehand. See Serve. ] 1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. [ 1913 Webster ]

O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

You can not preserve it from tainting. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence. [ 1913 Webster ]

To preserve game, to protect it from extermination. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To keep; save; secure; uphold; sustain; defend; spare; protect; guard; shield. See Keep. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make preserves. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To protect game for purposes of sport. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who makes preserves of fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Game preserver. See under Game. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. reseratus, p. p. of reserare to unlock. ] To unlock; to open. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Reservation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. réservation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve. ] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) (a) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. (b) A proviso. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Eccl.) (a) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. (b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. an agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz. [ PJC ]

Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. reservatorium, fr. L. resservare. See Reserve, v. t., and cf. Reservior. ] A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réserve. ] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. [ 1913 Webster ]

However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. [ 1913 Webster ]

The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is excepted; exception. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. [ 1913 Webster ]

My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined,
Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mil.) (a) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. (b) troops trained but released from active service, retained as a formal part of the military force, and liable to be recalled to active service in cases of national need (see Army organization, above). [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Finance) (a) That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it; specif.: (b) (Banking) Usually, the uninvested cash kept on hand for this purpose, called the real reserve. In Great Britain the ultimate real reserve is the gold kept on hand in the Bank of England, largely represented by the notes in hand in its own banking department; and any balance which a bank has with the Bank of England is a part of its reserve. In the United States the reserve of a national bank consists of the amount of lawful money it holds on hand against deposits, which is required by law (in 1913) to be not less than 15 per cent (U. S. Rev. Stat. secs. 5191, 5192), three fifths of which the banks not in a reserve city (which see) may keep deposited as balances in national banks that are in reserve cities (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5192). (c) (Life Insurance) The amount of funds or assets necessary for a company to have at any given time to enable it, with interest and premiums paid as they shall accure, to meet all claims on the insurance then in force as they would mature according to the particular mortality table accepted. The reserve is always reckoned as a liability, and is calculated on net premiums. It is theoretically the difference between the present value of the total insurance and the present value of the future premiums on the insurance. The reserve, being an amount for which another company could, theoretically, afford to take over the insurance, is sometimes called the
reinsurance fund or the
self-insurance fund. For the first year upon any policy the net premium is called the
initial reserve, and the balance left at the end of the year including interest is the
terminal reserve. For subsequent years the initial reserve is the net premium, if any, plus the terminal reserve of the previous year. The portion of the reserve to be absorbed from the initial reserve in any year in payment of losses is sometimes called the
insurance reserve, and the terminal reserve is then called the
investment reserve. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

9. In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the recipient will get a prize if another should be disqualified. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

10. (Calico Printing) A resist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

11. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reserved. (z&unr_;rvd");p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] [F. réserver, 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. [1913 Webster]

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; to make a reservation{7}. Gen. xxvii. 35. In cases where one person or party makes a request to an agent that some accommodation (such as a hotel room or place at a restaurant) be kept (reserved) for their use at a particular time, the word reserve applies both to the action of the person making the request, and to the action of the agent who takes the approproriate action (such as a notation in a book of reservations) to be certain that the accommodation is available at that time. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble? Job xxxviii. 22,23. [1913 Webster]

Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. Swift. [1913 Webster]

3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.] [1913 Webster]

. (Banking) In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities 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 other reserve cities may keep half of their reserve as deposits in these banks (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5195). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve. --
Reserve air. (Physiol.) Same as Supplemental air, under Supplemental. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness; reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness; modesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. [ 1913 Webster ]

To all obliging, yet reserved to all. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*serv"ed*ly adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reserves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réservoir, fr. LL. reservatorium. See Reservatory. ] 1. A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A large quantity of infectious microorganisms resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans. [ PJC ]

3. (Med.) a large quantity of infectious microorganisms or parasites resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans; especially, such organisms in animals where they do little or no harm to the host. [ PJC ]

4. A large supply or stock of anything which may be rapidly put to use; a reserve. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reserves; a reserver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

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