Category:Rescue

Res"cue (rs"k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescued (-kd);p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing.] Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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.

Rescue Res"cue (rs"k), n. Etym: [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. Etym: [etymol. uncertain.] (bot.) A tall grass (ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for Hay and forage in the southern states.