Reservation

1. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
2. The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
3. A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
4. A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
5. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
6. A proviso.
7. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
8. The state of being reserved, or kept in store.