[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

recourse \recourse"\ 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.
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            unto my first i will have my recourse. --chaucer.
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            preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the
            healthy, or the recourse thereof in the
            valetudinary.                         --sir t.
                                                  browne.
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   2. recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like;
      access or application for aid; resort.
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            thus died this great peer, in a time of great
            recourse unto him and dependence upon him. --sir h.
                                                  wotton.
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            our last recourse is therefore to our art. --dryden.
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   3. access; admittance. obs.
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            give me recourse to him.              --shak.
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   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
see also:
recur without recourse 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

without \without"\, prep. oe. withoute, withouten, as.
   wieth?tan; wieth 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.
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            without the gate
            some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.
                                                  --dryden.
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   2. out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond.
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            eternity, before the world and after, is without our
            reach.                                --t. burnet.
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   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.
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            i wolde it do withouten negligence.   --chaucer.
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            wise men will do it without a law.    --bacon.
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            without the separation of the two monarchies, the
            most advantageous terms . . . must end in our
            destruction.                          --addison.
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            there is no living with thee nor without thee.
                                                  --tatler.
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   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.
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see also:
with out to do without do without day without recourse 
recourse 

[3] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

without recourse. vide sans recours and indorsement; chit. on bills, 179; 14 
s.  r. 325; 3 cranch, 193; 7 cranch, 159; 1 cowen, 538; 12 mass. 172; 6 
shipl. r. 354. 

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