without recourse

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

Without \With*out"\, prep. [OE. withoute, withouten, AS. wi[eth]?tan; wi[eth] with, against, toward + ?tan outside, fr. ?t out. See With, prep., Out.] [1913 Webster]

1.On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. [1913 Webster]

Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

2.Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. [1913 Webster]

Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.— T. Burnet.[1913 Webster]

3.Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage. [1913 Webster]

I wolde it do withouten negligence.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

Wise men will do it without a law.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

There is no living with thee nor without thee.— Tatler.[1913 Webster]

To do without. See under Do.

Without day [a translation of L. sine die], without the appointment of a day to appear or assemble again; finally; as, the Fortieth Congress then adjourned without day.

Without recourse. See under Recourse. [1913 Webster]