The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation, Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior, The body of troops, in an army drawn up for battle, reserved to sustain the other lines as occasion may require; a body of troops kept for an exigency, adjective_ Held in or forming a reserve, transitive verb_ To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose,