Definition of Reserved

Re`served´   Pronunciation: ~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.


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