issue

1. 1

   The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow; A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.obsolete

2. 2

   The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow; The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.

   • The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
3. 3

   Someone or something that flows out or comes out; The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.archaic

   • For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
4. 4

   Someone or something that flows out or comes out; Offspring: one's natural child or children.historicalusually

   • He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
5. 5

   Someone or something that flows out or comes out; Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.figuratively

   • Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
6. 6

   Someone or something that flows out or comes out; A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.figurativelyobsolete

7. 7

   Someone or something that flows out or comes out; The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.archaic

   • 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.
8. 8

   Someone or something that flows out or comes out; Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.historicalrare

9. 9

   Someone or something that flows out or comes out; The entrails of a slaughtered animal.obsolete

10. 10

    Someone or something that flows out or comes out; Any action or deed performed by a person.obsoleterare

1. 1

   To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.intransitive

   • The water issued forth from the spring.
   • The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
2. 2

   To rush out, to sally forth.intransitive

   • The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
3. 3

   To extend into, to open onto.intransitive

   • The road issues into the highway.
4. 4

   To turn out in a certain way, to result in.intransitive

   • But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.
5. 5

   To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.archaicintransitive

   • And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
6. 6

   To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.

7. 7

   To send out; to put into circulation.transitive

   • The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
8. 8

   To deliver for use.transitive

   • The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
9. 9

   To deliver by authority.transitive

   • The court issued a writ of mandamus.

syn. begive