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Custody
- noun - (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of the children"
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police"
- detention
- holding by the police; "the suspect is in custody"
Customs
- noun -
- a specific practice of long standing
- accepted or habitual practice
- habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"
- Usages
Custrel
- - An armor-bearer to a knight.
Cut Off
- adjective - break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
- cease, stop; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"
- cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
- detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"
- make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
- remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
- remove surgically; "amputate limbs"
Cut Out
- adjective - cease operating; "The pump suddenly cut out"
- cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
- delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article"
- form and create by cutting out; "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper"
- form and create by cutting out; "Picasso cut out a piece of paper in the shape of a guitar"
- having been cut out; "the cut-out pieces of the dress"
- intercept (a player)
- strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out; "scratch out my name on that list"
Cut-Off
- - That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.
Cut-Out
- - A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit. (b) (Elec.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
Cutaway
- noun - a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees
- a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts
- A shot in film or TV that interrupts the main action.
Cutback
- noun - a reduction in quantity or rate
Cutches
- noun - tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas