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Fellowship; association; companionship. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.

Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.

One who resorts; a frequenter.

Not sorted; not classified; as, a lot of unsorted goods.

The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble. When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish. Richardson.

A kind of dance. See Allemande. Almain rivets, Almayne rivets, or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.

A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy.

Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

Of another sort. [Archaic] It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.

Resort to physical means; recourse. Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent.

The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke.

A very fine sort of Persian silk.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

A soldier armed with an arquebus. Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers. E. Lodge.

A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.

The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

aining, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.