Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A keeper; a custodian.
  • noun In music, the sign or , at the end of a line or page, to show the position of the first note of the next.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.
  • noun (Eng. Law) the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.

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  • noun obsolete A Guardian

Etymologies

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Latin

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  • JM must be the custos custos ‘cause he wonders is it wrong to have a seal on a bun so he is the custos morum and the custos rotulorum as well as the custos sigilli.

    August 17, 2009

  • plural custodes

    March 18, 2011