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▪ I. † reˈservatory, n. Obs.
[ad. med.L. reservātōrium store-house, f. reservāt-, ppl. stem of reservāre: see reserve v. and -ory1.]
1. A receptacle for food; a cupboard; a store-room or store-house.
1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 179 Under their [Cormorants'] Bills, they have a great bag of shrivell'd skin,..and they make use of it as a reservatory for the fish they take. 1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3) 36 Every Religious has in his own Apartment a Reservatory, stor'd with Fruit and other Necessaries. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xxiii. 101 The Acharnensian parasites were to deposit an hecteum of their dole in the reservatory of Apollo, to whom they were to offer sacrifices.
2. A vessel for liquids. rare.
1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 195 There must also be a very great care taken, that the Reservatory into which the squeezed juice falls..be often wash'd. 1720Mrs. Manley Power of Love vi. (1741) 314 A little Reservatory, in Case of extream Sickness and Distress, of some of the Vaudois Wine, and a few Conserves.
3. A reservoir for water, etc. (In common use c 1670–1740.)
1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 8 Pools and Reservatories of fresh water, which supply the scarcity of Springs and Rivers. 1680Morden Geog. Rect., Spain (1685) 177 Bringing the Water from great Reservatories which they made in the Mountains. 1704Collect. Voy. & Trav. III. 4/1 The Snow..remains as it were in Wells and Reservatories. 1719Quincy Phys. Dict. (1722) 39/2 The most convenient Springs or Reservatories of cold Water to wash in. 1747Act 21 Geo. II, c. 8 Any of the watercourses, canals, reservatories, or pipes.
b. A receptacle for fluids in animals or plants.
1692Ray Creation ii. (ed. 2) 125 The Reservatories, where Pliny says, that Camels do a long time keep the Water which they drink. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. (1727) 422 Their leaves are channelled fit to catch and convey Water down to their Reservatories. 1731Hist. Litt. I. 30 The Milk,..rarifying with the Heat, is no longer to be contain'd in its small Reservatories.
▪ II. reˈservatory, a. rare.
[f. as prec. + -ory2.]
Of or belonging to reservation.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. v. 100 An excellent bugbeare..to set in one of Cloacina's reservatory, or privie Chambers. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 182, I keep in a leaning posture in the Reservatory Baskets those Trees that are designed for the Wall. |