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Recure, -cuir, Recour, n. [ME recour (a1330), recowre (c1450), late ME and e.m.E. rekure (1414), recure (a1542), f. Recur(e v., also, in part, contracted var. of Recover n.] Means of recovery; remedy. Also, once, applied to a person. b. But, without recure, without, or past, hope of recovery. Cf. Recover n.(1) a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 335.
To thy seiknes sal be na recure a1568 Bann. MS 246a/5. c1590 J. Stewart 182/3.
I laik haill And may find no recuir(2) 15.. Saltire Rev. (1954) II 51.
Of all my wo, yo are the haill recuirb. a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 1203.
It war syn, but recure [: also, honoure], The knightis honour suld smure 1560 Rolland Seven S. 4794.
Had not bene ȝour gude counsell But recure I had schamit my sell a1568 Scott xx 3.
Wappit without recure [: indure] In wo remidiles a1568 Bann. MS 219b/7.
Ȝour sycht hes slane my cors without recure(b) 1375 Barb. ii 546.
Quhar the assailȝeis all … slew the pupill but recour [: tour]