Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IS'SUE, n. [ish'u; Fr. issue; It. uscio, a door, and uscire, to go out. It may coincide in origin with Heb. Ch. יצא, Eth. ወፀአ watsa.]

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.