issue

UK /ˈɪʃuː/ US /ˈɪʃuː/
noun 6verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow

2

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow

The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.

And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeeres, came behinde him [Jesus], and touched the hemme of his garment.

3

Someone or something that flows out or comes out

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

4

Someone or something that flows out or comes out

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

His Majesty, His issue, if any, and the descendants of that issue, shall not after His Majesty’s abdication have any right, title or interest in or to the succession to the Throne, and section one of the Act of Settlement shall be construed accordingly.

5

Someone or something that flows out or comes out

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

verb

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.

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.

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

5

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

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

noun

1

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

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