issue

Noun (1)

issue (plural issues)

1. (obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.

   Synonyms:

   sortie, sally, charge

2. The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
   • 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 9:20
3. (archaic) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
   • For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:20
4. (historical, usually) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
   • 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.1936, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1(2)”, in His Majesty’s Declaration of Abdication Act 1936ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page 2
5. (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
   • Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.

   Synonyms:

   descendant, fruit of one's loins, offspring

6. (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
7. (archaic) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
   • 3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.
8. (historical, rare) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
9. (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
10. (obsolete, rare) Any action or deed performed by a person.
11. (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
12. A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
    • Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.

Verb

issue (third-person singular simple present issues, present participle issuing, simple past and past participle issued)

1. (intransitive) 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. (intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth.
   • The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
3. (intransitive) To extend into, to open onto.
   • The road issues into the highway.
4. (intransitive) 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.2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 171
5. (archaic, intransitive) 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.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
6. To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
7. (transitive) To send out; to put into circulation.
   • The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
8. (transitive) To deliver for use.
   • The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
   • Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the...2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN
9. (transitive) To deliver by authority.
   • The court issued a writ of mandamus.
   • Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th...2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian

Noun (2) capitalized: Issue

IPA/ˈɪʃ(j)u/

Issue (plural Issues)

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