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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Issue \Is"sue\, n. [OF. issue, eissue, F. issue, fr OF issir, eissir to go out L. exire; ex out of from + ire to go akin to Gr 'ie`nai, Skr. i, Goth. iddja went used as prefect of gaggan to go Cf {Ambition}, {Count} a nobleman, {Commence}, {Errant}, {Exit}, {Eyre}, {Initial}, {Yede} went.] 1. The act of passing or flowing out a moving out from any inclosed place egress; as the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house. 2. The act of sending out or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury. 3. That which passes, flows, or is sent out the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper. 4. Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes in a general sense all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants. If the king Should without issue die. --Shak. 5. Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits. 6. A discharge of flux, as of blood. --Matt. ix 20. 7. (Med.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part 8. The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence contest; test; trial. Come forth to view The issue of the exploit. --Shak. While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue. --Shak. 9. A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide. 10. (Law) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other is presented for determination. See {General issue}, under {General}, and {Feigned issue}, under {Feigned}. --Blount. Cowell. {At issue}, in controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent. As much at issue with the summer day As if you brought a candle out of doors. --Mrs. Browning. {Bank of issue}, {Collateral issue}, etc See under {Bank}, {Collateral}, etc {Issue pea}, a pea, or a similar round body, used to maintain irritation in a wound, and promote the secretion and discharge of pus. {To join}, or {take}, {issue}, to take opposing sides in a matter in controversy. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Take \Take\ (t[=a]k), v. t. 1. To make a picture, photograph, or the like of as to take a group or a scene. [Colloq.] 2. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as he took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs. exc. Slang or Dial.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Take \Take\, obs. p. p. of {Take}. Taken --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr & vb n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense To lay hold of to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away to convey. Hence specifically: a To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of to reduce into subjection to one's power or will to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as to take am army, a city, or a ship; also to come upon or befall; to fasten on to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii. 27. Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. --Pope. They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon. There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak. b To gain or secure the interest or affection of to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. --Prov. vi 25. Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. --Wake. I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. --Moore. c To make selection of to choose also to turn to to have recourse to as to take the road to the right Saul said Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken --1 Sam. xiv. 42. The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners. --Hammond. d To employ; to use to occupy; hence to demand; to require; as it takes so much cloth to make a coat. This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. --I. Watts. e To form a likeness of to copy; to delineate; to picture; as to take picture of a person. Beauty alone could beauty take so right --Dryden. f To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.] The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. --Tillotson. g To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self to indulge or engage in to yield to to have or feel to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say h To lead; to conduct; as to take a child to church. i To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over as he took the book to the bindery. He took me certain gold, I wot it well --Chaucer. k To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from as to take the breath from one to take two from four 2. In a somewhat passive sense to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept Specifically: a To accept as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. --Num. xxxv. 31. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. --1 Tim. v. 10. b To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of to swallow; as to take food or wine. c Not to refuse or balk at to undertake readily; to clear; as to take a hedge or fence. d To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to to tolerate; to endure; as to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man. e To admit as something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow to accept to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon to consider; to suppose; as to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies. You take me right --Bacon. Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor. --Wake. [He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South. You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. --Tate. f To accept the word or offer of to receive and accept to bear; to submit to to enter into agreement with -- used in general senses as to take a form or shape. I take thee at thy word --Rowe. Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold. --Dryden. {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air}, etc See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey. {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities. {To take away}, to carry off to remove; to cause deprivation of to do away with as a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. ``By your own law, I take your life away.'' --Dryden. {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. ``Doth God take care for oxen?'' --1 Cor. ix 9. {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of to care for to superintend or oversee. {To take down}. a To reduce; to bring down as from a high, or higher, place as to take down a book; hence to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as to take down pride, or the proud. ``I never attempted to be impudent yet that I was not taken down.'' --Goldsmith. b To swallow; as to take down a potion. c To pull down to pull to pieces; as to take down a house or a scaffold. d To record; to write down as to take down a man's words at the time he utters them {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and {Fire}. {To take ground to the right} or {to the left} (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left to move as troops, to the right or left {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged. {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. ``Take heed what doom against yourself you give.'' --Dryden. {To take heed to}, to attend with care as take heed to thy ways. {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse. {To take in}. a To inclose; to fence. b To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. c To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as to take in sail. d To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] e To admit to receive; as a leaky vessel will take in water. f To win by conquest. [Obs.] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in --Chapman. g To receive into the mind or understanding. ``Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions.'' --I. Watts. h To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take [Eng.] {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}. {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. ``Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.'' --Ex. xx 7. {To take issue}. See under {Issue}. {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2. {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular attention. {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}. {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner. {To take off}. a To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of anything as to take off a load; to take off one's hat. b To cut off as to take off the head, or a limb. c To destroy; as to take off life. d To remove; to invalidate; as to take off the force of an argument. e To withdraw; to call or draw away --Locke. f To swallow; as to take off a glass of wine. g To purchase; to take in trade ``The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off.'' --Locke. h To copy; to reproduce. ``Take off all their models in wood.'' --Addison. i To imitate; to mimic; to personate. k To find place for to dispose of as more scholars than preferments can take off [R.] --Bacon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Take \Take\, v. i. 1. To take hold to fix upon anything to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as he was inoculated, but the virus did not take --Shak. When flame taketh and openeth it giveth a noise. --Bacon. In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. --Bacon. 2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed. Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it if the thing should take --Addison. 3. To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self to proceed; to go -- usually with to as the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge. 4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as his face does not take well {To take after}. a To learn to follow to copy; to imitate; as he takes after a good pattern. b To resemble; as the son takes after his father. {To take in with}, to resort to [Obs.] --Bacon. {To take on}, to be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent manner. {To take to}. a To apply one's self to to be fond of to become attached to as to take to evil practices. ``If he does but take to you . . . you will contract a great friendship with him.'' --Walpole. b To resort to to betake one's self to ``Men of learning, who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world.'' --Addison. {To take up}. a To stop. [Obs.] ``Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion.'' --Tillotson. b To reform. [Obs.] --Locke. {To take up with}. a To be contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with as to take up with plain fare. ``In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities.'' --I. Watts. b To lodge with to dwell with [Obs.] --L'Estrange. {To take with}, to please. --Bacon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Take \Take\, n. 1. That which is taken especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch. 2. (Print.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: take n 1: the income arising from land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: {return}, {issue}, {proceeds}, {takings}, {yield}, {payoff}] 2: the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption v 1: carry out: "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance" 2: as of time or space: "I took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" [syn: {occupy}, {use up}] 3: take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: {lead}, {direct}, {conduct}, {guide}] 4: get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!" "Can you take this bag, please" [syn: {get hold of}] 5: take on a certain form attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" [syn: {assume}, {acquire}, {adopt}, {take on}] 6: interpret something in a certain way convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; You can't take credit for this!" [syn: {read}] 7: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; also metaphorical, as in "This brings me to the main point" [syn: {bring}, {convey}] 8: take into one's possession; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" [ant: {give}] 9: travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route: "He takes the bus to work"; "She takes Route 1 to Newark" 10: pick out select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn: {choose}, {select}, {pick out}] 11: receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" [syn: {accept}, {have}] [ant: {refuse}] 12: assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development" [syn: {fill}] 13: consider, as of an example; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case" [syn: {consider}, {deal}, {look at}] 14: require as useful, just or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner demands a spectacular dessert" [syn: {necessitate}, {ask}, {need}, {require}, {involve}, {call for}, {demand}] [ant: {obviate}] 15: experience or feel submit to "Take a test"; "Take the plunge" 16: make a film or photograph of something "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: {film}, {shoot}] 17: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off etc.; or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket" [syn: {remove}, {take away}] 18: serve oneself to or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!" "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn: {consume}, {ingest}, {take in}, {have}] [ant: {abstain}] 19: accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" [syn: {undergo}, {submit}] 20: make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity" [syn: {accept}] 21: take by force; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill" 22: occupy or take on as of a position or posture; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree" [syn: {assume}, {take up}] 23: admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" [syn: {accept}, {admit}, {take on}] 24: ascertain or determine by measuring, computing, etc.: "take a pulse"; take a reading from a dial: "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" 25: be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" [syn: {learn}, {study}, {read}] 26: take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" [syn: {claim}, {call for}, {exact}] 27: head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains" [syn: {make}] 28: aim or direct at as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; "Please don't aim at your little brother!" "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: {aim}, {train}, {take aim}, {direct}] 29: be seized in a specified way "take sick", "be taken drunk" 30: have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains" [syn: {carry}, {pack}] 31: engage in a commercial transaction; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: {lease}, {rent}, {hire}, {charter}, {engage}] 32: receive or obtain by regular payment; "We take the Times every day" [syn: {subscribe}, {subscribe to}] 33: buy select; "I'll take a pound of that sausage" 34: to get into a position of having e.g., safety, comfort; "take shelter from the storm" 35: have sex with archaic use "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" [syn: {have}] 36: lay claim to as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea" [syn: {claim}] [ant: {disclaim}] 37: be designed to hold or take "This surface will not take the dye" [syn: {accept}] 38: be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon" [syn: {contain}, {hold}] 39: develop a habit; "He took to visiting bars" 40: obtain by winning: "Winner takes all"; "He took first prize" 41: be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" [syn: {contract}, {get}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: TAKE v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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