Re*served" (-z?rvd"), 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 (r-zrv"d-l), adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.

 

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