n. [ F. recours, L. recursus a running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back. See Recur. ]
Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Our last recourse is therefore to our art. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Give me recourse to him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Without recourse (Commerce),
v. i.
The flame departing and recoursing. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]