Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rescue \Res"cue\ (r?s"k?), n. [From {Rescue}, v.; cf.
   {Rescous}.]
   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. --Bouvier.

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

   {Rescue grass}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass
      ({Ceratochloa unioloides}) somewhat resembling chess,
      cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.