Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IS'SUE, v.i. [It. uscire. See the noun.]

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.