RESCUE
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Res"cue (rĕs"k&uuptack_;), 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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Res"cue (rĕs"k&uuptack_;), 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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