Custody
- n. State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
- n. A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
- n. Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.