Add a few drops of lavender oil to unscented massage oil for a relaxing and healing body massage. To soothe sunburn, add a few drops of lavender oil to distilled water in a spray bottle, and mist sunburned skin. Apply lavender essential oil to insect bites and stings, cuts, scrapes and abrasions. Lavender is said to be antiseptic and help destroy germs that can cause infections, soothe itching and speed healing to help reduce scarring. Add 1-2 drops of lavender oil to a vaporizer and inhale slowly to battle sinusitis, colds, coughs and infections.
plural rescues. Learner's definition of RESCUE. [count] : an act of saving someone or something from danger, harm, or trouble. The lifeguard performed a heroic rescue. The policeman came/went to the rescue of the lost boy. [=the policeman rescued the lost boy] When her brother lost his job, she came to his rescue by paying his rent.
Under admiralty and maritime law, rescue has another definition entirely. It means recovering goods that have been forcibly taken by one vessel from another. The property in question is referred to as a prize, and its rescue may be effected by reclaiming the property with force or by escaping.