(v. t.) 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.
(v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
or danger; liberation.
(v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of
things lawfully distrained.
(v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or
imprisonment.
(v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the
enemy.
