What is "rescue grass"

Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]

1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

   Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot.
   --Shak.

2. (Law)

   1. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

   2. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

   3. 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.

n. A tall grass (''Ceratochloa unioloides'') somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the southern United States.