Rescue

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), 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.
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           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.
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     Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release;
          save.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [From {Rescue}, v.; cf.
     {Rescous}.]
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     1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
        or danger; liberation.
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              Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. --Shak.
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     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.
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                  The rescue of a prisoner from the court is
                  punished with perpetual imprisonment and
                  forfeiture of goods.              --Blackstone.
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     {Rescue grass}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass
        ({Ceratochloa unioloides}) somewhat resembling chess,
        cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rescue
       n : recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the
           deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving
           of lives" [syn: {deliverance}, {delivery}, {saving}]
       v 1: free from harm or evil [syn: {deliver}]
       2: take forcibly from legal custody; "rescue prisoners"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "rescue":
     Emancipation Proclamation, abet, affranchise, affranchisement, aid,
     assist, assistance, avail, bail out, bear a hand, befriend,
     benefit, break, breakout, buy, comfort, conserve, deliver,
     deliverance, delivery, disembarrass, disentangle, disenthrall,
     disenthrallment, do good, doctor, ease, emancipate, emancipation,
     emergence, enfranchise, enfranchisement, escape, escapism, evasion,
     extract, extricate, extrication, favor, flight, free, freeing,
     gay liberation, getaway, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift,
     give help, good offices, help, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak,
     leakage, lend a hand, lend one aid, let go free, let loose,
     liberate, liberation, manumission, manumit, ministration, ministry,
     office, offices, outlet, preserve, prisonbreak, proffer aid,
     protect, protection, rally, ransom, reclaim, recoup, recover,
     recycle, redeem, regain, release, relief, relieve, remedy,
     render assistance, restore, resuscitate, retrieve, revive,
     riddance, salvage, save, saving, service, set at large,
     set at liberty, set free, set up, setting at liberty, setting-free,
     succor, support, take in tow, therapy, vent, win back
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RESCUE, crim. law. A forcible setting at liberty against law of a person 
  duly arrested. Co. Litt. 160; 1 Chitty's Cr, Law, *62; 1 Russ. on Cr. 383. 
  The person who rescues the prisoner is called the rescuer. 
       2. If the rescued prisoner were arrested for felony, then the rescuer 
  is a felon; if for treason, a traitor; and if for a trespass, he is liable 
  to a fine as if he had committed the original offence. Hawk. B. 5, c. 21. If 
  the principal be acquitted, the rescuer may nevertheless be fined for the 
  misdemeanor in the obstruction and contempt of public justice. 1 Hale, 598. 
       3. In order to render the rescuer criminal, it is necessary he should 
  have knowledge that the person whom he sets at liberty has been apprehended 
  for a criminal offence, if he is in the custody of a private person; but if 
  he be under the care of a public officer, then he is to take notice of it at 
  his peril. 1 Hale, 606. 
       4. In another sense, rescue is the taking away and setting at liberty, 
  against law, a distress taken for rent, or services, or damage feasant. Bac. 
  Ab. Rescue, A. 
       5. For the law of the United States on this subject, vide Ing. Dig. 
  150. Vide, generally, 19 Vin. Ab. 94. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RESCUE, mar. war. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the 
  enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partake's of the nature 
  of a recapture; it occurs when the weaker party before he is overpowered, 
  obtains relief from the arrival of fresh succors, and is thus preserved from 
  the force of the enemy. 1 Rob. Rep. 224; 1 Rob. Rep. 271. 
       2. Rescue differs from recapture. (q.v.) The rescuers do not by the 
  rescue become owners of the property, as if it had been a new prize -- but 
  the property is restored to the original owners by the right of 
  postliminium. (q.v.) 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Rescue, CA
    Zip code(s): 95672