RESORT', s as z.
1. To have recourse to apply to betake.
The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
2. To go to repair.
The people resort to him again. Mark 10 . John 18 .
3. To fall back.
The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. Obs.
RESORT', n.
1. The act of going to or making application a betaking one's self as a resort to other means of defense a resort to subterfuges for evasion.
2. Act of visiting.
Join with me to forbid him her resort.
3. Assembly meeting.
4. Concourse frequent assembling as a place of resort.
5. The place frequented as, alehouses are the resorts of the idle and dissolute.
6. Spring active power or movement a Gallicism. Not in use.
Last resort, ultimate means of relief also, final tribunal that from which there is no appeal.
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