- (n.) That which passes, flows or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.
- (v.i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
- (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.
- (v.t.) To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
- (v.i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements or a capital stock.
- (v.i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
- (n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
- (v.i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
- (n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
- (n.) The act of sending out or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.
- (v.t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
- (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
- (n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.
- (v.i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
- (n.) A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.
- (v.i.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
- (v.i.) To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
- (v.t.) To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
- (n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood.
- (v.i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
- (n.) Produce of the earth or profits of land, tenements or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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