Lion issuant. 
issuance 
issuance (ish'6-ans), n. [< issuan(t) + -ce.~\ 
The act of issuing or giving out : as, the issu- 
ance of rations. 
issuant (ish'6- ant), a. [X issue + -ant."] 
Emerging: in her., said of a beast of which only 
the upper half is seen. Especially 
(a) When emerging from the lower 
edge or bottom of a chief, and therefore 
borne upon the chief : as, a chief gules, 
a demi-lion issuant argent. In this sense 
contrasted with ascendant, which means 
rising from the bottom of a shield or 
from the outer edge of a fesse, etc., and 
with jessant and naissant, which mean 
rising from the middle of an ordinary, as 
a fesse, and usually borne partly on the ordinaiy and part- 
ly on the field above it. (o) Rising out of any other bear- 
ing, or from the bottom of the escutcheon. [Rare in this 
sense.} Issuant and revertant, in her., coming into 
sight and disappearing : said of two beasts of which the 
upper part of one and the lower part of the other are visi- 
ble, as when one of them rises from the base of the shield 
and the other disappears at the top. 
issue (ish'6), n. [< ME. issue, issu, isshue, isch- 
ewe, yssewe, < OF. issue, eissue, essue, F. issue, a 
going out, egress, outlet, final event, < issu, pp. 
of issir, eisser, < L. exire, go out : see exit. Of. 
ish. The noun is in later senses partly from the 
verb.] 1. A going, passing, or flowing out; 
passage from within outward ; an outgoing, 
outflow, or flux. 
With my mouthe if I laugh moch or lite, 
Myn yen sholde make a contynaunce vn-trewe, 
Myn hert also wolde haue ther-of despite, 
The wepyng teres haue so large yssewe. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 53. 
A woman which was diseased with an issue of blood 
twelve years came behind him. Mat. ix. 20. 
2. Means of egress; an opening or outlet; a 
passage leading outward ; a vent. 
Than thei gan to repeire a softe paas till thei come to 
the ism of the foreste, and than gan it to shewe day. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 357. 
The foliage closed so thickly in front that there seemed 
to be no issue. Jt. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 120. 
3. Specifically, in med., a vent for the passage 
of blood or morbid matter ; a running sore, ac- 
cidental or made as a counter-irritant. 
When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, 
because of his issue he is unclean. Lev. xv. 2. 
Issues over the spine have been found useful in chronic 
spinal disease. . Quain, Med. Diet., p. 314. 
4. An outcome ; a result ; the product of any 
process or action ; that which occurs as a con- 
sequence ; ultimate event or result : as, a happy 
issue of one's labors; the issues of our actions 
are hidden from us. 
A blisfull begynnyng may boldly be said, 
That flolow to the fer end and hath a faire tissue. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2257. 
Learning and philosophy . . . had . . . the power to 
lay the mind under some restraint, and make it consider 
the issue of things. Bacon, Moral Fables, vi., Expl. 
Spirits are not finely touch'd 
But to fine issues. Shak., M. for M., i. 1, 37. 
A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. 
Emerson, Nature. 
5. Offspring; progeny; a child or children; 
descendant or descendants: as, he had issue a 
son ; issue of the whole or of the half blood. 
Thare es none ischewe of us on this erthe sprongene 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1943. 
Was Milan thrust from Milan that his issue 
Should become kings of Naples? 
Shak., Tempest, v. 1, 206. 
Might I dread that you, 
With only Fame for spouse and your great deeds 
For issue, yet may live in vain? 
Tennyson, Princess, iii. 
6. Produce or proceeds; yield, as of land or 
other possessions: as, the issues, rents, and 
profits of an estate. 
He was first of Inglond that gaf God his tithe, 
Of isshues of bestes, of landes, or of tithe. 
Hob. of Brunne, p. 19. 
7. The act of sending or giving out ; a putting 
or giving forth; promulgation; delivery; emis- 
sion : as, the issue of commands by an officer, 
or of rations to troops; the issue of a book, or 
of bank-notes. 
The booking-office is not opened for the issue of tickets 
until perhaps a quarter of an hour before the time fixed 
for the departure of the train. 
Saturday Rev., Jan., 1874, p. 14. 
Issue is also applied to the mere attempt to dispose of 
old stock at a reduced price, where no reprint takes place. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., II. 479. 
The codification of Bavarian law and the issue of the 
Golden Bull were . . . attempts in the direction of civili- 
sation in accordance with the highest existing ideal. 
Slubts, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 211. 
8. That which is sent out, promulgated, or de- 
livered; the quantity sent forth at one time, 
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or within a certain period : as, a large issue of 
bank-notes ; the daily issues of a newspaper. 
No undeserving favourite doth boast 
His issues from our treasury. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iv. 4. 
To restrict issues, or forbid notes below a certain de- 
nomination, is no less injurious than inequitable. 
LL. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 434. 
The vast development of stereotyping has made the 
word issue a partial substitute for the word "edition." 
If. and Q., 7th ser., II. 478. 
9. A matter of which the result is to be de- 
cided; that which is to be determined by trial 
or contention; a conclusion held in abeyance 
for consideration or debate ; a choice between 
alternatives : as, the issues of the day ; a dead 
issue. 
Thus was raised a simple issue of law to be decided by 
the court. Maeavlay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
In this act . . . they have forced upon the country the 
distinct issue, "immediate dissolution or blood." 
Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 141. 
The years have never dropped their sand 
On mortal issue vast and grand 
As ours to-day. Whittier, Anniversary Poem. 
10. Inlaw: (a) The close or result of pleadings 
in a suit, by the presentation of a controverted 
point to be determined by trial. It is either 
an issue of taw, to be determined by the court, 
or of fact, to be determined by a jury or by the 
court. (6) The controversy on any material 
fact, affirmed on one side and denied on the 
other, in a trial, (c) The sending out or au- 
thoritative delivery of a document : as, the is- 
sue of execution At issue, (a) In controversy; op- 
posing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; 
inconsistent ; inharmonious. 
Face, voice 
As much at issue with the summer day 
As if you brought a candle out of doors. 
Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, ii. 
(6) In dispute ; under discussion. 
A third point at issue between Carlyle and many is what 
he has baptised Anti-rose-waterism in Cromwell. 
Colburn's New Mag., N. S., VIII. 206. 
(c) Specifically, in law, the condition of a cause when the 
point in controversy has been arrived at by pleading. 
Bank of issue. See oankz. Collateral issue. See col- 
lateral. Distributive finding of the issue. See dis- 
tributive. Feigned issue. See feign. General issue, 
in lav, a simple denial of the whole charge or complaint, 
or of the main substance of it, in the form of a denial, as 
"not guilty" or "not indebted," as distinguished from a 
special denial (see special issue, below), and from allega- 
tions conflicting with particular averments, and from spe- 
cial pleas of other facts in avoidance. Immaterial is- 
sue, an issue which cannot be decisive of any part of theliti- 
gation, as distinguished from a material issue, or one taken 
upon a fact which cannot be admitted without determin- 
ing at least some part of the rights in controversy. Thus, 
if in an action for the price of goods sold defendant with- 
out denying the purchase should merely deny that it was 
on the day alleged by plaintiff, the issue would be immate- 
rial ; but if he should set up that the sale was on a credit 
still unexpired, issue joined upon this allegation would be 
material. Issue roll, in old English legal practice, the 
roll of parchment on which the pleadings were entered, in 
anticipation of trial ; hence, in somewhat later times, the 
pleadings in a cause, collected and fastened or folded to- 
getherfor the same purpose. Joinder of issue, joinder 
in issue, the act of joining issue in pleading ; the docu- 
ment by which one party signifies to the adversary that he 
rests the cause for trial on the point at issue on the plead- 
ings. Note of issue, in law, a memorandum showing 
issue joined in a cause, which informs the clerk that it is 
ready for trial 1 . Special issue, an issue taken by deny- 
ing a particular part of the adversary's allegations, as dis- 
tinguished from the issue presented by a general denial. 
To j oin issue, to take issue, said of two parties who take 
up an affirmative and a negative position respectively on 
a point in debate. 
Were our author's arguments enforced against deists or 
atheists only, we should heartily join issue. 
Goldsmith, Criticisms. 
To pool issues, to unite for the promotion of individual 
interests or objects by joint action ; combine for mutual 
advantage. [IT. S.] = Syn. 4, Consequence, result, upshot, 
_ conclusion, termination. 5. Progeny, etc. Seed/spring. 
issue (ish'6), v. ; pret. and pp. issued, ppr. issu- 
ing. [< ME. issuen, yssuen; < issue, n.~] I. in- 
trans. 1 . To pass from within outward ; go or 
pass out ; go forth. 
Fele fightyng folke of the fuerse comyns, . . . 
At Ector thai asket leue, & yssuit furth somyn [together]. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6222. 
For, I protest, we are well fortified, 
And strong enough to issue out and fight. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 2, 20. 
2. To proceed as progeny ; be derived or de- 
scended; spring. 
Of thy sons that shall issue from thee. 2 Ki. xx. 18. 
Thy father 
Was Duke of Milan ; and his only heir 
And princess no worse issued. 
Shak., Tempest, i. 2, 59. 
3. To be produced as an effect or result ; grow 
or accrue; arise; proceed: as, rents and pro- 
fits issuing from land. 
isthmian 
This is my fault : as for the rest appeal'd, 
It issues from the rancour of a villuin. 
Shak., Rich. II., i. 1, 143. 
4. To come to a result or conclusion ; reach an 
end ; close ; terminate : with in before an ob- 
ject : as, we know not how the cause will issue ; 
the negotiations issued in a firm peace. 
Her effort to bring tears into her eyes issued in an odd 
contraction of her face. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 9. 
The child issues in the man as his successor, and the 
child and the man issue in the old man. 
J. H. Newman, Gram, of Assent, p. 131. 
5. In law : (a) To come to a question in fact or 
law on which the parties join in resting the de- 
cision of the cause. (6) To go forth as author- 
itative or binding: said of an official instrument, 
as a mandamus, proclamation, or license. [In 
this sense often used in the future, implying that the 
court has the right to issue the writ, and will do so upon 
application : as, a writ of prohibition will issue to forbid 
an inferior court from entertaining a suit of which it has 
no jurisdiction.] 
II. trans. 1. To send out; deliver for use; 
deliver authoritatively; emit; put into circu- 
lation : as, to issue provisions ; to issue a writ or 
precept ; to issue bank-notes or a book. 
After much dispute and even persecution there was is- 
sued in 1555 a decree establishing toleration to all. 
Brougham. 
Arundel found time to issue a series of constitutions 
against them [Lollards] in 1409. Stubbs, Const. Hist., 404. 
2f. To bring to an issue; terminate ; settle. 
It is our humble request, that in case any difference 
grow in the general court, between magistrates and dep- 
uties, . . . which cannot be presently issued with mutual 
peace, that both parties will be pleased to defer the same 
to further deliberation. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 255. 
Endeavour to issue those things, in the wisdom and 
power of God, which will be a glorious crown upon your 
ministry. Perm, Rise and Progress of Quakers, vL 
issueless (ish'o-les), a. [< -issue, ., + -less.'] 
Having no issue or progeny ; lacking children. 
Ah ! if thou issueless shall hap to die, 
The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife. 
Shak., Sonnets, ix. 
issue-pea (ish'6-pe), n. A pea or similar round 
body employed for the purpose of maintaining 
irritation in a wound of the skin called an issue. 
See issue, n., 3. 
issuer (ish'o-er), . One who issues or emits: 
as, the issuer of a proclamation, a promissory 
note, etc. 
ISSUS (is'us), n. [NL. (Fabricius, 1803), < L. 
Issus, Gr. 'Iffo-of, a city of Cilicia, on the Medi- 
terranean.] The typical genus of insects of the 
family IssicUs. The fore wings are rather flat, broadest 
near the base, convex on the fore border, smaller and 
rounded at the tip. Upward of 60 species are found, in 
all parts of the world. Those of North America are small 
and inconspicuous. A leading one is /. coleoptratus, widely 
distributed in Europe. 
-ist. [=F. -iste = Sp.Pg. lt.-ista,< L.-iste,-iste.s, 
< Gr. -iffT^f, a termination of nouns of agent 
from verbs in -ifrtv, < -<f- + -rr/^, common forma- 
tive of nouns of agent. See -ize, -ism.'] A termi- 
nation of Greek origin, existing in many Eng- 
lish words derived from the Greek or formed on 
Greek analogy, denoting an agent (one who 
does or has to do with a thing), and corre- 
sponding usually to nouns in -er 1 , with which 
in some cases they interchange. Such nouns are 
either (a) of pure Greek formation, asAtticist, baptist, evan- 
gelist, exorcist, etc., or formed of Greek elements, as ety- 
mologist, philologist, physicist, dramatist, economist, etc. 
(with equivalent etymologer, phUoloi/er, etc.), or (6) formed 
from a Latin or Romance base, as annalist,, artist, jurist, 
legist, moralist, pietist, qtdetist, realist, specialist, etc., espe- 
cially with reference to political or social theories or prac- 
tices, as abolitionist, federalist, unionist, protectionist, social- 
ist, nihilist, corruptionist, fusionist, etc., or (c) formed from 
an English word (whether native or naturalized), as harp- 
ist, druggist, violinist, etc. ; so also saloonist, etc. Words of 
the first two classes are very numerous, new formations 
being made with great freedom. In the last use the suffix 
is but sparingly used, the formative -erl or some other be- 
ing preferred. In vulgar use words in -ist are often em- 
ployed, humorously or for the nonce, where properly only 
-er is permissible, as in shootist, singist, walkist, etc., for 
shooter, singer, walker, etc. In some instances, as scientist, 
for example, the formation is irregular, and the words are 
condemned by purists. 
isthmf, isthimt, [< OF. isthme: see isthmus.'] 
An isthmus. Davies. 
Logh Nesse, . . . from which, by a verie small Isthlm 
or partition of hils, the Logh Lutea or Louthia ... is di- 
vided. Holland, tr. of Camden, ii. 50. 
isthmian (ist'- or is'mi-an), a. [= F. Istlnnien, 
< L. Isthiniux, < Gr. "lafi/Jio/;, pertaining to the 
Isthmus of Corinth, < 'InSiwf, the Isthmus of 
Corinth: see isthmus.] 1. Of or pertaining to 
an isthmus. 2. [.cup.'} Specifically, of or per- 
taining to the Isthmus of Corinth, between the 
Peloponnesus and the mainland of Greece. 
