Found 2 items, similar to recourse.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: recourse 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Recourse Recourse \Re*course"\, v. i. 1. To return; to recur. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The flame departing and recoursing. --Foxe. [1913 Webster] 2. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.] --Bp. Hacket. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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] 2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort. [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] 3. Access; admittance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Give me recourse to him. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]