The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescued
   (-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing.] [OE. rescopuen, OF.
   rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to
   shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See Qtash to
   crush, Rercussion.]
   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.
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         Had I been seized by a hungry lion,
         I would have been a breakfast to the best,
         Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. --Shak.
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   Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release;
        save.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [From Rescue, v.; cf.
   Rescous.]
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   1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
      or danger; liberation.
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            Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. --Shak.
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   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.
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                The rescue of a prisoner from the court is
                punished with perpetual imprisonment and
                forfeiture of goods.              --Blackstone.
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   Rescue grass. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass
      (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess,
      cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
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U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Rescue, CA
  Zip code(s): 95672

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

107 Moby Thesaurus words for "rescue":
   Emancipation Proclamation, abet, affranchise, affranchisement, aid,
   assist, assistance, avail, bail out, bear a hand, befriend,
   benefit, break, breakout, buy, comfort, conserve, deliver,
   deliverance, delivery, disembarrass, disentangle, disenthrall,
   disenthrallment, do good, doctor, ease, emancipate, emancipation,
   emergence, enfranchise, enfranchisement, escape, escapism, evasion,
   extract, extricate, extrication, favor, flight, free, freeing,
   gay liberation, getaway, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift,
   give help, good offices, help, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak,
   leakage, lend a hand, lend one aid, let go free, let loose,
   liberate, liberation, manumission, manumit, ministration, ministry,
   office, offices, outlet, preserve, prisonbreak, proffer aid,
   protect, protection, rally, ransom, reclaim, recoup, recover,
   recycle, redeem, regain, release, relief, relieve, remedy,
   render assistance, restore, resuscitate, retrieve, revive,
   riddance, salvage, save, saving, service, set at large,
   set at liberty, set free, set up, setting at liberty, setting-free,
   succor, support, take in tow, therapy, vent, win back