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CUSTODY, n. L., a watchman, a keeper. See Chaste.

1. A keeping a guarding care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation or security.

Under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle. Numbers 3 .

The prisoner was committed to the custody of the sheriff.

2. Imprisonment confinement restraint of liberty.
3. Defense from a foe preservation security.

There was prepared a fleet of thirty ships fro the custody of the narrow seas.

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Entry for 'Custody'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​c/custody.html.
 
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