RECOURSE

recourse. recourse, a running backe againe

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recourse. Recourse, n. access, application for help, return

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Re‐course″ (r?‐k?rs″), n. [[F. recours, L. recursus a running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back. See Recur.]] 1. 1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. “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. 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. 3. Access; admittance.
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.