1. [n]  recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
2. [v]  take forcibly from legal custody, as of prisoners
3. [v]  free from harm or evil

Rescue
Wild tales of survival and neardeath exposed to the elements liven this nailbiting collection of true travel stories, from the two teenagers lost in the Great Gulf Wilderness of New Hampshire to the two canoeists who battled the ravages of hypothermia in order to surive their ordeal. Original.

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1. \Res"cue\ (r?s"k?), 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.
         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.
   Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release;
        save.
   

2. \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.