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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
reserve \reserve"\ r?-z?rv", v. t. imp.  p. p. reserved.
   z?rvd";p. pr.  vb. n. reserving. f. r'eserver, 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 reservation7. --gen. xxvii.
      35.

   note: 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
see also:
reserved reserving serve 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
reserved \reserved"\ -z?rvd", 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 -- reserv"edly r?-z?rv"?d-l?, adv. --
      reserv"edness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
reserv"edly reserv"edness 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
reserved
     adj 1: set aside for the use of a particular person or party ant:
            unreserved
     2: marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually
        reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-victoria
        sackville-west ant: unreserved
     3: cool and formal in manner syn: restrained, reticent, unemotional
see also:
unreserved restrained reticent unemotional 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
120 moby thesaurus words for "reserved":
   olympian, spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aloof, antisocial,
   aposiopestic, backward, bashful, blank, brief, brusque,
   ceremonious, chilled, chilly, clipped, close, close-lipped,
   close-tongued, closemouthed, cold, compact, compendious,
   compressed, concise, condensed, conserved, constrained, contracted,
   controlled, conventional, cool, crisp, curt, cut, demure, detached,
   diffident, dignified, discreet, distant, docked, elliptic,
   epigrammatic, expressionless, forbidding, formal, frigid, frosty,
   gnomic, guarded, held, held back, held in reserve, ice-cold, icy,
   impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incommunicable, introverted,
   kept, laconic, modest, modified, noncommittal, offish, pithy,
   pointed, poker-faced, preserved, prim, pruned, put by, quiet,
   remote, removed, repressed, restrained, retained, reticent,
   retiring, rigid, saved, sedate, sententious, short,
   short and sweet, shortened, shrinking, shy, silent, spare,
   standoff, standoffish, strait-laced, subdued, succinct, summary,
   suppressed, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped,
   tights, to the point, truncated, unaffable, unapproachable,
   uncommunicative, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unemotional,
   unexpansive, ungenial, unresponsive, unsocial, withdrawn,
   withheld





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