Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
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.
Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
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.)
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.
One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
The senior person in a monastic community.
A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
Greater in size or power.
Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
Higher in rank, status, or quality.
(of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
Of high standard or quality.
Located above or out; higher in position.
Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
(of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
Printed in superscript.
(of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
More comprehensive.
(of a planet) Closer to the Earth than to the Sun.
Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
Greater or better than average.