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rescue — I verb aid, deliver, disenthrall, disimprison, emancipate, exsolvere, extricate, free, free from confinement, free from danger, let escape, let out, liberare, liberate, manumit, preserve, ransom, recapture, reclaim, recover, redeem, release,… … Law dictionary
Rescue — Res cue (r[e^]s k[ u]), n. [From {Rescue}, v.; cf. {Rescous}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. [1913 Webster] Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Rescue grass — Rescue Res cue (r[e^]s k[ u]), n. [From {Rescue}, v.; cf. {Rescous}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. [1913 Webster] Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. Shak. [1913 Webster]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
rescue — [res′kyo͞o] vt. rescued, rescuing [ME rescuen < OFr rescourre < re , again + escorre, to shake, move < L excutere, to shake off, drive away < ex , off + quatere, to shake: see QUASH2] 1. to free or save from danger, imprisonment, evil … English World dictionary
Rescue Dawn — Infobox Film name = Rescue Dawn imdb id = 0462504 writer = Werner Herzog producer = Elton Brand Steve Marlton starring = Christian Bale Steve Zahn Jeremy Davies director = Werner Herzog cinematography = Peter Zeitlinger editing = Joe Bini… … Wikipedia
rescue — Act of saving or freeing. At common law, forcibly and knowingly freeing another from arrest, imprisonment or legal custody without any effort by prisoner to free himself. Merrill v. State, 42 Ariz. 341, 26 P.2d 110. The unlawfully or forcibly… … Black's law dictionary
List of characters from the Dark Tower series — ProtagonistsKa tet of the Nineteen and Ninety nine Roland Deschain Roland Deschain, son of Steven Deschain, was born in the Barony of Gilead, in In World. Roland is the last surviving gunslinger, a man whose only goal is finding and climbing to… … Wikipedia
Duty to rescue — Tort law Part of the … Wikipedia
Operation Rescue New Zealand — was a short lived New Zealand pro life civil disobedience group (1988–1993), partly formed from Wellington and Christchurch Pro Life Action Groups , but initiated by a group of four young men who first sought to rescue unborn children prayfully… … Wikipedia
Oberlin–Wellington Rescue — The Oberlin Wellington Rescue of 1858 in Lorain County, Ohio was a key event and cause celèbre in the history of the abolitionist movement in the United States shortly before the American Civil War. John Price, an escaped slave, was arrested in… … Wikipedia
