Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.
Rogers.
4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in
personal behavior.
My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve,
and all the sex, behind.
Prior.
The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
Hawthorne.
5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose;
as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the
school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the
support of the clergy.
6. (Mil.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle,
reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or
body of troops kept for an exigency.