{reinsurance fund} or the
{self-insurance fund}. For the first year upon any policy the
net premium is called the
{initial reserve}, and the balance left at the end of the
year including interest is the
{terminal reserve}. For subsequent years the initial reserve
is the net premium, if any, plus the terminal reserve of
the previous year. The portion of the reserve to be
absorbed from the initial reserve in any year in payment
of losses is sometimes called the
{insurance reserve}, and the terminal reserve is then called
the
2. In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the
recipient will get a prize if another should be
disqualified.
3. (Calico Printing) A resist.
4. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix
the limits of the deposit.
5. See {Army organization}, above.
2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to
withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to
keep; to retain. --Gen. xxvii. 35.
Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I
have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job
xxxviii.
22,23.
Reserve your kind looks and language for private
hours. --Swift.
3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]
However any one may concur in the general scheme, it
is still with certain reserves and deviations.
--Addison.
2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried
likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a
continual supply. --Tillotson.
3. That which is excepted; exception.
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.
7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
{In reserve}, in keeping for other or future use; in store;
as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has
evidence or arguments in reserve.
{Reserve air}. (Physiol.) Same as {Supplemental air}, under
{Supplemental}.
Syn: Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness;
reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness;
modesty.