Rescue /(rĕs"kū̇)/

imp. & p. p. Rescued; p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing

1. 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.

1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

   Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot.

2. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained. (Law)

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