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.
Meaning: Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions. Synonyms: deliverance; rescue; saving; delivery. Context examples: work is the deliverance of mankind / a surgeon's job is the saving of lives. Hypernyms (rescue is a kind of...): recovery; retrieval (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of rescue): lifesaving (saving the lives of drowning persons) redemption; salvation ((Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil) reclamation; reformation (rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course)