n. a genus comprising the chinch bugs. See chinch, 2.
Syn. -- genus Blissus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to a commissure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. commissura a joining together: cf. F. commissure. See Commit. ] 1. A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat. & Zool.) (a) The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc. (b) A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n.; pl. Crissa [ NL.; cf. L. crisso to move the haunches. ] (Zool.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissuaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissuading. ] [ L. dissuadere, dissuasum; dis- + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. dissuader. See Suasion. ] 1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). [ Obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

War, therefore, open or concealed, alike
My voice dissuades. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have tried what is possible to dissuade him. Mad. D' Arblay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dissuades; a dehorter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dissuasio: cf. F. dissuasion. See Dissuade. ] 1. The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. -- n. A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation. Prynne. -- Dis*sua"sive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A dissuasive. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissundered p. pr. & vb. n. Dissundering. ] [ Pref. dis- (intens) + sunder. ] To separate; to sunder; to destroy. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Intertissued.

a. Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fissura, fr. findere, fissum, to cleave, split; akin to E. bite: cf. F. fissure. ] A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cerebral fissures (Anat.), the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum. --
Fissure needle (Surg.), a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. Knight. --
Fissure of rolando (Anat.), the furrow separating the frontal from the parietal lobe in the cerebrum. --
Fissure of Sylvius (Anat.), a deep cerebral fissure separating the frontal from the temporal lobe. See Illust. under Brain. --
Fissure vein (Mining), a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., dim. of L. fissura a fissure. ] (Zool.) A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of marine limpets.
Syn. -- family Fissurellidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Interwoven. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Issue. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Leading to, producing, or relating to, an issue; capable of being made an issue at law. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lawful or suitable to be issued; as, a writ issuable on these grounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Issuable plea (Law), a plea to the merits, on which the adverse party may take issue and proceed to trial. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of issuing, or giving out; as, the issuance of an order; the issuance of rations, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Issuing or coming up; -- a term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the king
Should without issue die. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A discharge of flux, as of blood. Matt. ix. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come forth to view
The issue of the exploit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; a point of contention; a matter in controversy. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

At issue, in controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent. [ 1913 Webster ] 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 issue, or
To take issue, to take opposing sides in a matter in controversy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Issued p. pr. & vb. n. Issuing. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place. [ 1913 Webster ]

From it issued forced drops of blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of thy sons that shall issue from thee. 2 Kings xx. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Law) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no issue or progeny; childless. “The heavens . . . have left me issueless.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who issues, emits, or publishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of issuing; putting out.
Syn. -- issue, issuance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.
Syn. -- battle of Issus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. medius middle + E. commissure. ] (Anat.) A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. B. G. Wildex. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Failure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong or evil suggestion. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong summation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Narcissuses [ L. narcissus, and (personified) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos, Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor, in allusion to the narcotic properties of the flower. Cf. Narcotic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Classical Myth.) (Capitalized)A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the state of something that has outlived its relevance.
Syn. -- dead letter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

An overissue of government paper. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To issue in excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils.
Syn. -- genus Parthenocissus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. post- + commisure. ] (Anat.) A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure. B. G. Wilder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. præ + commissure. ] (Anat.) A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being reissued. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To issue a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second or repeated issue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. scissura, from scindere, scissum, to cut, split. ] A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text. ] 1. A woven fabric. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

In their glittering tissues bear emblazed
Holy memorials. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tissued p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing. ] To form tissue of; to interweave. [ 1913 Webster ]

Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

And crested chiefs and tissued dames
Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]