WordDictionary

Noun:

• A discharge of flux, as of blood. Matt. ix. 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.
• euphemism A problem or concern.
• finance A financial instrument in a company, such as a bond, stock or other security; the emission of such an instrument.
• legal 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. At issue, in controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent.
• medicine 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.
• Member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, VA. The Issues are now known as the Monacan Indians.
• 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.
• Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
• 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.
• The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any enclosed 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.
• 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.
• The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.

Verb:

• legal In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
• 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.
• To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
• To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
• To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
• To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place.
• To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
• To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
• To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
• To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
• To turn out (in a given way); to have a specified issue or result, to result (in).