Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
A reserve price in an auction.
Wine held back and aged before being sold.
A body of troops kept 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.
Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
A resist.
A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
To keep back; to retain.
To book in advance; to make a reservation.
To keep in store for future or special use.
The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
Parsimony; frugal use.
An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
A superfluous or second-best person.
The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
A spare part, especially a spare tire.
The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
That which has not been used or expended.
Not occupied or in current use.
Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
(to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
To desist; to stop; to refrain.