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Webster 1913 Edition


Issue

Is′sue

(ĭsh′ū̍)
,
Noun.
[OF.
issue
,
eissue
, F.
issue
, fr. OF.
issir
,
eissir
, to go out, L.
exire
;
ex
out of, from +
ire
to go, akin to Gr.
ἰέναι
, Skr.
i
, Goth.
iddja
went, used as prefect of
gaggan
to go. Cf.
Ambition
,
Count
a nobleman,
Commence
,
Errant
,
Exit
,
Eyre
,
Initial
,
Yede
went.]
1.
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
.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
If the king
Should without
issue
die.
Shakespeare
5.
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
.
6.
A discharge of flux, as of blood.
Matt. ix. 20.
7.
(Med.)
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.
8.
The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
Come forth to view
The
issue
of the exploit.
Shakespeare
While it is hot, I ’ll put it to the
issue
.
Shakespeare
10.
(Law)
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
.
Blount. Cowell.
At issue
,
in controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent.

Bank of issue
,
Collateral issue
, etc.
See under
Bank
,
Collateral
, etc.
Issue pea
,
a pea, or a similar round body, used to maintain irritation in a wound, and promote the secretion and discharge of pus.
To join issue
, or
To take issue
,
to take opposing sides in a matter in controversy.

Is′sue

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Issued
(ĭsh′ū̍d)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Issuing
.]
1.
To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
From it
issued
forced drops of blood.
Shakespeare
2.
To go out; to rush out; to sally forth;
as, troops
issued
from the town, and attacked the besiegers
.
3.
To proceed, as from a source;
as, water
issues
from springs; light
issues
from the sun.
4.
To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
Of thy sons that shall
issue
from thee.
2 Kings xx. 18.
5.
To extend; to pass or open;
as, the path
issues
into the highway
.
6.
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
.
7.
To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out;
as, we know not how the cause will
issue
.
8.
(Law)
In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

Is′sue

(ĭsh′ū̍)
,
Verb.
T.
1.
To send out; to put into circulation;
as, to
issue
notes from a bank
.
2.
To deliver for use;
as, to
issue
provisions
.
3.
To send out officially; to deliver by authority;
as, to
issue
an order; to
issue
a writ.

Webster 1828 Edition


Issue

ISSUE

,
Noun.
ish'u.
1.
The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out of any inclosed place; egress; applied to water or other fluid, to smoke, to a body of men, &c. We say, an issue of water from a pipe, from a spring, or from a river; an issue of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows; an issue of people from a door or house.
2.
A sending out; as the issue of an order from a commanding officer or from a court; the issue of money from a treasury.
3.
Event; consequence; end or ultimate result. Our present condition will be best for us in the issue.
4.
Passage out; outlet.
To God the Lord belong the issues from death. Ps.68.
5.
Progeny; a child or children; offspring; as, he had issue,a son; and we speak of issue of the whole blood or half blood. A man dies without issue.
6.
Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements or other property. A conveyed to B all his right to a term for years, with all the issues, rents and profits.
7.
In surgery, a fontanel; a little ulcer made in some part of an animal body, to promote discharges.
8.
Evacuation; discharge; a flux or running. Lev.12. Matt.9.
9.
In law, the close or result of pleadings; the point of matter depending in suit, on which the parties join, and put the case to trial by a jury.
10. A giving out from a repository; delivery; as an issue of rations or provisions from a store, or of powder from a magazine.

Definition 2024


Issue

Issue

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English

Noun

Issue

  1. A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.

issue

issue

See also: Issue

English

Noun

issue (plural issues)

  1. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
    1. (military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
    2. (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
      The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
  2. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
    1. (medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
    2. (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
      He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
    3. (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
      Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
    4. (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
    5. (now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
      3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.
    6. (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
    7. (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
    8. (rare and obsolete) Any action or deed performed by a person.
    9. (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
    10. (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
      Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
    11. The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
      The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
    12. (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
      The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
    13. The loan of a book &c. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
  3. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
    1. (obsolete) A sewer.
  4. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
    1. (obsolete) An exit from a room or building.
    2. (now rare) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
  5. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
    The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
    1. (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
      • 2005, James Harold Kirkup, The Evolution of Surgical Instruments, Ch. xxv, p. 403:
        Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.
    2. The production or distribution of something for general use.
      Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
    3. The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
      The uniform was standard prison issue.
    4. (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
      The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
  6. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
    Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
    1. (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
      The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
    2. (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
      For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
    3. (rare and obsolete) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.
    4. (US, originally psychology, usually plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figuratively and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
      She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... Imma just sayin', girl's got issues.
  7. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
    1. (obsolete) The end of any action or process.
    2. (obsolete) The end of any period of time.
  8. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
    1. (now rare) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
    2. (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
  9. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
  10. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
  11. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
    The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.

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Verb

issue (third-person singular simple present issues, present participle issuing, simple past and past participle issued)

  1. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
    The water issued forth from the spring.
    The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
    • Bible, 2 Kings, xx. 18
      ...thy sons that shall issue from thee...
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
      There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops
      A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly...
  2. To rush out, to sally forth.
    The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
  3. To extend into, to open onto.
    The road issues into the highway.
  4. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
    • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 171:
      But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.
  5. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
  6. To send out; to put into circulation.
    The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
  7. To deliver for use.
    The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
  8. To deliver by authority.
    The court issued a writ of mandamus.
    • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
      Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

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References

  • issue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.sy/

Noun

issue f (plural issues)

  1. An exit, a way out
    En cas de danger, empruntez l’issue de secours. (In case of danger, use the emergency exit.)
  2. The final outcome or result.
    L’issue de cette bataille est incertaine. (The outcome of this battle is uncertain.)

Old French

Verb

issue f

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of issir

Noun

issue f (oblique plural issues, nominative singular issue, nominative plural issues)

  1. exit; way out
  2. departure (act of leaving)

Descendants

  • English: issue (borrowed)