Rescue

·v The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

II. Rescue ·v The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

III. Rescue ·v The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

IV. Rescue ·v The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

V. Rescue ·vt 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.