Definitions for: Rescue


[n] recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
[v] take forcibly from legal custody, as of prisoners
[v] free from harm or evil



Webster (1913) Definition: Res"cue (r?s"k?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescued
(-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing.] [OE. rescopuen, OF.
rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to
shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See Qtash to
crush, Rercussion.]
To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or
evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or
withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a
prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a
breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus
rescue me. --Shak.

Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release;
save.


Res"cue (r?s"k?), 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)
(a) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of
things lawfully distrained.
(b) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or
imprisonment.
(c) 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.

Synonyms: deliver, deliverance, delivery, saving

See Also: bring through, carry through, lifesaving, pull through, reclamation, recovery, redemption, reformation, relieve, reprieve, retrieval, salvage, salvage, salvation, salve, save, search and rescue mission, take

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