a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

some held in custody

The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation, The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril, recovery or preservation from loss or danger, verb_ free from harm or evil, To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint, To recover forcibly, transitive verb_ To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil, Law To remove (a person or property) from legal custody by force, in violation of the law, To cause to be free from danger, imprisonment, or difficulty; save. synonym_ save

To stop; check, To seize and hold under the authority of law, noun_ The act of detaining in legal custody, The state of being so detained

A person held in custody, captivity, or a condition of forcible restraint, especially while on trial or serving a prison sentence, A person under arrest or in custody of the law, whether in prison or not_ as, a prisoner at the bar of a court, One who is confined in a prison

The control and care of a person or property, especially when granted by a court, The state of being detained or held under guard, especially by the police, A keeping; a guarding; care, watch, inspection, or detention, for preservation or security_ as, the prisoner was committed to the custody of the sheriff

A police officer, The head or top of a thing; especially, the top of a hill, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound, verb_ take into custody, take by theft, transitive verb_ To get hold of; gain or win, To take unlawfully or without permission; steal, intransitive verb_ usually with "to" (slang) to admit, especially to a crime

The act of holding, guarding, maintaining, or supporting, Custody_ care, Harmony_ conformity, A holding_ restraint_ custody_ guard_ charge_ care_ preservation