Custody \Cus"to*dy\ (k?s"t?-d?), n. [L. custodia, fr. custos
guard; prob. akin to Gr. ?????? to hide, and E. hide. Seee
Hide to cover.]
1. A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for
keeping, preservation, or security.
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A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the
narrow seas. --Bacon.
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2. Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
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Jailer, take him to thy custody. --Shak.
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3. State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape;
restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
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What pease will be given
To us enslaved, but custody severe,
And stripes and arbitrary punishment? --Milton.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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94 Moby Thesaurus words for "custody":
administration, auspices, captainship, care, chairmanship, charge,
cold storage, confinement, conservation, convenership, cure,
custodianship, dead storage, detention, dictatorship, directorate,
directorship, dry storage, eagle eye, foremanship, generalship,
governance, government, governorship, guard, guardedness,
guardianship, guarding, guidance, hands, headship, hold,
imprisonment, incarceration, intendancy, invigilation,
jurisdiction, keep, keeping, leadership, lookout, management,
managership, mastership, ministry, monitoring, observance,
overseership, oversight, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship,
patronage, peeled eye, preservation, presidency,
preventive custody, proctoring, proctorship, protection,
protective custody, protectorship, prudence, qui vive, safe hands,
safekeeping, sharp eye, shelf-room, sovereignty, stewardship,
storage, storage space, stowage, superintendence, superintendency,
supervision, supervisorship, surveillance, trust, tutelage, vigil,
vigilance, ward, wardenship, wardship, warehousing, wariness,
watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching,
weather eye, wing
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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