Reserve \Re*serve"\ (r?-z?rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (z?rvd");p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.]

[F. r['e]server, 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.

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. --Gen. xxvii. 35.

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

Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. --Swift.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Reserved \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?-z?rv"?d-l?), adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)