| Reservation 1. (n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. 2. (n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. 3. (n.) A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. 4. (n.) The state of being reserved, or kept in store. 5. (n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted. 6. (n.) A proviso. 7. (n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. 8. (n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. Thesaurus Entries Indian reservation, allowance, appointment, archives, area, arrangement, bank, bespeaking, bird sanctuary, booking, briefing, cession, circumscription, concession, condition, demur, demurral, demurrer, employment, engagement, exception, exemption, extenuating circumstances, forest preserve, game reserve, grain of salt, grant, hedge, hedging, hesitancy, hesitation, hiring, holding back, library, limitation, mental reservation, modification, museum, national forest, national park, objection, paradise, park, plot, preengagement, preserve, provision, proviso, qualification, qualm, region, reluctance, reserve, restriction, retainment, reticence, salvo, sanctuary, scruple, section, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, state forest, stipulation, store, string, strings, taking on, term, terms, territory, tract, waiver, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, withholding |