The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]
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The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot.
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(Law)
The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
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The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
--Bouvier.The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods.
--Blackstone.Rescue grass. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass ( Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.