Category:Recourse

Re*course" (r*krs"), n. Etym: [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.

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.