3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recourse \Re*course"\ (r?*k?rs"), n. [F. recours, L. recursus a
running back return, fr recurrere recursum to run back
See {Recur}.]
1. A coursing back or coursing again along the line of a
previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat;
recurence. [Obs.] ``Swift recourse of flushing blood.''
--Spenser.
Unto my first I will have my recourse. --Chaucer.
Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the
healthy, or the recourse thereof in the
valetudinary. --Sir T.
Browne.
2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need or the like
access or application for aid; resort.
Thus died this great peer, in a time of great
recourse unto him and dependence upon him --Sir H.
Wotton.
Our last recourse is therefore to our art. --Dryden.
3. Access admittance. [Obs.]
Give me recourse to him --Shak.
{Without recourse} (Commerce), words sometimes added to the
indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the
indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent
holders. It is a restricted indorsement.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recourse \Re*course"\, v. i.
1. To return; to recur. [Obs.]
The flame departing and recoursing --Foxe.
2. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.] --Bp. Hacket.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
recourse
n 1: act of turning to for assistance: "have recourse to the
courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"
[syn: {resort}, {refuge}]
2: something or someone turned to for assistance or security:
"his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"
[syn: {refuge}, {resort}]
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