custos

/ˈkʌ.stɒs/noun
Middle School
1

A warden.

2

A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a custody of the order.

3

In older forms of musical notation, an indication, at the end of a line of music, of the first note of the next line.

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