issue

1. issue (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow: A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.

2. issue (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow: The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.

Example: The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.

3. issue (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Someone or something that flows out or comes out: The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.

Example: For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

4. issue (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.

Example: The water issued forth from the spring.

5. issue (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To rush out, to sally forth.

Example: The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.

6. issue (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To extend into, to open onto.

Example: The road issues into the highway.