Issue
(Is"sue) v. t.
1. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
2. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
3. To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
Issueless
(Is"sue*less), a. Having no issue or progeny; childless. "The heavens . . . have left me issueless."
Shak.
Issuer
(Is"su*er) n. One who issues, emits, or publishes.
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ist
(-ist) -iste.]—> A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist,
one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.
Is't
(Is't) A contraction of is it.
Isthmian
(Isth"mi*an) a. [L. Isthmius, Gr. . See Isthmus.] Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially
to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
Isthmian games (Gr. Antiq.), one of the four great national festivals of Greece, celebrated on the
Isthmus of Corinth in the spring of every alternate year. They consisted of all kinds of athletic sports,
wrestling, boxing, racing on foot and in chariots, and also contests in music and poetry. The prize was a
garland of pine leaves.
Isthmus
(Isth"mus) n.; pl. Isthmuses [L. isthmus, Gr. 'isqmo`s a neck, a neck of land between two
seas, an isthmus, especially the Isthmus of Corinth; prob. from the root of 'ie`nai to go; cf. Icel. eið isthmus.
See Issue.] (Geog.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which
a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
Isthmus of the fauces. (Anat.) See Fauces.
Istle
(Is"tle) n. Same as Ixtle.
Isuret
(I*su"ret) n. [Iso- + urea.] (Chem.) An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming
a white crystalline substance; — called also isuretine.
It
(It) pron. [OE. it, hit, AS. hit; cf. D. het. &radic181. See He.] The neuter pronoun of the third
person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural
(they, their or theirs, them).
The possessive form its is modern, being rarely found in the writings of Shakespeare and Milton, and
not at all in the original King James's version of the Bible. During the transition from the regular his to
the anomalous its, it was to some extent employed in the possessive without the case ending. See
His, and He. In Dryden's time its had become quite established as the regular form.
The day present hath ever inough to do with it owne grief.
Genevan Test.
Do, child, go to it grandam, child.
Shak.
It knighthood shall do worse. It shall fright all it friends with borrowing letters.
B. Jonson.
