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.
Res"cue*less, a. Without rescue or release.
Res"cu*er (-k?-?r), n. One who rescues.
Res`cus*see" (r?s`k?s-s?"), n. (O.Eng. Law) The party in whose favor a
rescue is made. Crabb.
Res*cus"sor (r?s-k?s"s?r), n. [LL.] (O.Eng.Law) One who makes an
unlawful rescue; a rescuer. Burril.
Rese (r?z), v. i. To shake; to quake; to tremble. [Obs.] "It made all
the gates for to rese." Chaucer.
Re-search" (r?-s?rch"), v. t. [Pref. re- + search.] To search again; to
examine anew.
Re*search" (r?-s?rch"), n. [Pref. re- + search: cf OF. recerche, F.
recherche.] Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or
principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches
of human wisdom.
The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the
results of the researches of antiquaries.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Investigation; examination; inquiry; scrutiny.
Re*search", v. t. [Pref. re- + search: cf. OF. recerchier, F.
rechercher.] To search or examine with continued care; to seek
diligently.
Re*search"er (-?r), n. One who researches.
Re*search"ful (-f?l), a. Making researches; inquisitive. [R.]
Coleridge.
Re*seat" (r?-s?t"), v. t. 1. To seat or set again, as on a chair,
throne, etc. Dryden.
2. To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to
reseat a chair or trousers.
Re*sect" (r?-s?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resected;p. pr. & vb. n.
Resecting.] [L. resectus, p. p. of resecare to cut off; pref. re- re- +
secare to cut.] To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.
Re*sec"tion (r?-s?k"sh?n), n. [L. resectio: cf. F. résection.] 1. The
act of cutting or paring off. Cotgrave.
2. (Surg.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the
ends of the bones in a false articulation.
Re*se"da (r?-s?"d?), n. [L. , a kind of plant.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of
plants, the type of which is mignonette.