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Though they [the Italians] might have recourse to barbarity as an expedient, they did not require it as a stimu Macaulay, Machi a vell i. lant. 2. Resort; customary visitation or communi cation. Vpon their countrye bordered the Nerutans, of whose nature and cond i cions Cesar founde thus muche by enquirye, that there was no recourse of merchants vnto them. Golding, tr. of Cæsar, fol. 53. 31. Acce ; admittance. I'll give you a pottle of burnt sack to give me recourse to him, and tell him my name is Brook. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 223. 41. Return; new attack; recurrence. Preventive physick. prevent eth sickne in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. Sir T. Browne . 51. Repeated course; frequent flowing. Priamus and Hecuba on knees, Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears. Shak ., T. and C., v. 3. 55. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 924. Recoursing to the thinges fore paste, and divining of thinges to come. Spenser, F. Q., To the Reader. 2. To have recourse. The Court re- courst to Lakes, to Springs, and Brooks: Brooks, Springs, and Lakes had the like taste and looks. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. recoursefult (rē-kōrs'fül), a . [ recourse + -ful.] Returning; moving alternately. Thetis' handmaids still in that recourseful deep With those rough Gods of sea continual revels keep. Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 279. recover1 (rē-kuv'èr), v . t. [OF. (and F.) re- couvrir , cover again, cover up, Pr. recobrir = OCat. ricobrir = It. ricoprire , cover again, re- , again, + cooper ire , cover, hide: see cover1 , v.] To cover again or anew. Sometimes writ- ten distinctively re - cover .