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† reˈcour, n. Obs.
Also 5 -owre.
[var. of recover n. Cf. recure n.]
Recovery, support, help, resource.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 4452 (Kölbing) Of þat castel hadde socour Þe Sarrazins & gret recour. 1375Barbour Bruce ii. 543 [Thai] entryt and destroyit the tour, And slew the pupill but recour. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. iv. (Skeat) I. 14 By no maner of semblaunt..thou lyste not to haue any recour. c1450Lonelich Merlin 204 Thanne was he ryht a sorweful man, For that non recowre ne knew he than.
So † reˈcour v. trans., to recover. Obs. rare.
(The form recoured, occas. found early in the 17th c., is probably to be taken as = recov'red.)
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. ix. 25 For sometimes Paridell and Blandamour The better had, and bet the others backe; Eftsoones the others did the field recoure [etc.]. |