Syn. — Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness; reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness; modesty.
Reserved
(Re*served") a.
1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts
and feelings; not free or frank.
To all obliging, yet reserved to all.
Walsh.
Nothing reserved or sullen was to see.
Dryden. — Re*serv"ed*ly adv. — Re*serv"ed*ness, n.
Reservee
(Res`er*vee") n. One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; - - contrasted with reservor.
Reserver
(Re*serv"er) n. One who reserves.
Reservist
(Re*serv"ist), n. A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia. [Eng.]
Reservoir
(Res"er*voir`) 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.
2. (Bot.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
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.
Reservor
(Re*serv"or) n. One who reserves; a reserver.
Reset
(Re*set") v. t. To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.
Reset
(Re"set) n.
1. The act of resetting.
2. (Print.) That which is reset; matter set up again.
Reset
(Re*set") n. [OF. recete, recepte, a receiving. Cf. Receipt.] (Scots Law) The receiving of
stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.
Reset
(Re*set"), v. t. (Scots Law) To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.
We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here.
Sir. W. Scott. Resetter
(Re*set"ter) n. (Scots Law) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.
