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.
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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.
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