issue
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Is issue a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:Synonyms: sortie, sally, chargeobsolete
2. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:Examples: "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."
3. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:Examples: "For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses."archaic
4. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:Examples: "He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up."historicalusually
5. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:Examples: "Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe."Synonyms: descendant, fruit of one's loins, offspringfiguratively
6. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:figurativelyobsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.Examples: "The water issued forth from the spring."; "The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means."; "...thy sons that shall issue from thee..."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth.Examples: "The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers."intransitive
3. (intransitive) To extend into, to open onto.Examples: "The road issues into the highway."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To turn out in a certain way, to result in.Examples: "But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins."intransitive
5. (intransitive, archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.Examples: "And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour."archaicintransitive
6. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
noun (English)
1. (derogatory) A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.derogatory
Definition source: Wiktionary