RESORTv.i.
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 10:1; John 18:20.
3. To fall back.
The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. Obs.
RESORTn.
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.