Res`er*va"tion (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. réservation, LL.
reservatio. See Reserve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back;
concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith.
With reservation of an hundred knights.
Shak.
Make some reservation of your wrongs.
Shak.
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given
up or brought forward. Dryden.
3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for
schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.]