Dictionary entry

Issue (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Is″sue, v. 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. Shak.

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.