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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.

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

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

A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects. Bath brick, a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc. -- Bath chair, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. "People walked out, o…

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice. "Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of great capitals." Addison.

Last; final. Dernier ressort ( Etym: [F.], last resort or expedient.

ad, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge. Evensongs and placebo and dirige. Wyclif. Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.

A place of low resort. [Slang] The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne.

A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. He frequented the court of Augustus. Dryden.

The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.

One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.

To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.

y trade or business; the tendency or inclination of persons, old customers and others, to resort to an established place of business; the advantage accruing from tendency or inclination. The good will of a trade is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place. Lord Eldon. -- In…