(1):
(v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
(2):
(v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
(3):
(v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.