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  • English Word Issue Definition A discharge of flux, as of blood.
  • English Word Issue Definition 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.
  • English Word Issue Definition The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
  • English Word Issue Definition 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.
  • English Word Issue Definition 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.
  • English Word Issue Definition To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
  • English Word Issue Definition To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
  • English Word Issue Definition To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
  • English Word Issue Definition To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
  • English Word Issue Definition To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
  • English Word Issue Definition 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.
  • English Word Issue Definition To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
  • English Word Issue Definition In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
  • English Word Issue Definition To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
  • English Word Issue Definition To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
  • English Word Issue Definition To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
  • English Word Issued Definition of Issue
  • English Word Issueless Definition Having no issue or progeny; childless.
  • English Word Issuer Definition One who issues, emits, or publishes.
  • English Word Issuing Definition of Issue
  • English Word Isthmian Definition Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
  • English Word Isthmus Definition A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
  • English Word Isthmuses Definition of Isthmus
  • English Word Istle Definition Same as Ixtle.
  • English Word Isuret Definition An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine.
  • English Word It Definition The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (they, their or theirs, them).
  • English Word It Definition As a substance for any noun of the neuter gender; as, here is the book, take it home.
  • English Word It Definition As a demonstrative, especially at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known; as, I saw it was John.
  • English Word It Definition As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.
  • English Word It Definition As a substitute for such general terms as, the state of affairs, the condition of things, and the like; as, how is it with the sick man?