ISSUE, n. ish'u.

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. Psalms 68

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 a 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.
8. Evacuation discharge a flux or running. Lev 12Matt 9
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 a jury.
10. A giving out from a repository delivery as an issue of rations or provisions from a store, or of powder from a magazine.