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Bail :: Bail (n.) Custody; keeping.

Baston :: Baston (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court..

Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow..

Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..

Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

Safety :: Safety (n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.

Hold :: Hold (n.) A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed..

Ward :: Ward (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.

Mail :: Mail (v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter..

Bank :: Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity..

Attachment :: Attachment (n.) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

Enfranchisement :: Enfranchisement (n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.

Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..

Jail :: "Jail (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding..

Exemplification :: Exemplification (n.) A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.

Prison :: Prison (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority..

Detention :: Detention (n.) Confinement; restraint; custody.

Custody :: Custody (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.

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