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 Res·cue n.
 1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
    Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot.   --Shak.
 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.
    The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods.   --Blackstone.
 Rescue grass.  Bot. A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
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