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noun

Rescue n.

The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. "Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot."

(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. "The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods."

Rescue grass. (Bot.) A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.

verb

Rescue v. t. (past & past part. rescued;pres. part. rescuing) 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."

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

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Etymology of 'Rescue'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Democracy and Education • John Dewey

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— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer

... of reason and their senses; and they could have exclaimed, as they witnessed them passing off, in the language of the great master of the drama and of human nature, but that their rigid Puritan principles would not, it is presumed, have permitted them, even in that moment of rescue and deliverance, to ...

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— Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul • Frank Moore

... unavoidable, has been the source of regret to the publisher, and has added considerably to the expenditure otherwise necessarily made, in attempting to rescue from oblivion the many interesting incidents, now, for the first time recorded. To preserve them from falling into the gulph of forgetfulness, was the chief motive which the publisher had in view; and should the profits of the work be sufficient to defray the expenses, actually incurred in its ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

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