ISSUE, n. 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. lxviii.
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 the 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. Encyc.
8. Evacuation; discharge; a flux or running. Lev. xii. Math. ix.
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 jury. Cowel.
10. A giving out from a repository; delivery; as, an issue of rations or provisions from a store, or of powder from a magazine.

1. To pass or flow out; to run out of any inclosed place; to proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; blood issues from wounds; sap or gum issues from trees; light issues from the sun.
2. To go out; to rush out. Troops issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
3. To proceed, as progeny; to spring. Of thy sons that shall issue from thee. 2 Kings xx.
4. To proceed; to be produced; to arise; to grow or accrue; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.
5. In legal pleadings, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join and rest the decision of the cause. Our lawyers say, a cause issues to the court or to the jury; it issues in demurrer.
6. To close; to end. We know not how the cause will issue.

1. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue money from a treasury, or notes from a bank.
2. To send out; to deliver from authority; as, to issue an order from the department of war; to issue a writ or precept.
3. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions from a store.

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. To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
   
   

   From it issued forced drops of blood. Shak.

3. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
4. 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.
5. To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
6. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
7. 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.
8. To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
9. To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
10. 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. Shak.

11. To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
    
    

    Of thy sons that shall issue from thee. 2 Kings xx. 18.

12. 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.
13. To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
14. A discharge of flux, as of blood.
    
    
    Matt. ix. 20.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
18. The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
    
    

    Come forth to view
    The issue of the exploit. Shak.

    While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue. Shak.

19. In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
20. 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.
21. 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.

    As much at issue with the summer day
    As if you brought a candle out of doors. Mrs. Browning.

    -- 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, or take, issue, to take opposing sides in a matter in controversy.