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scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] -- Fighting crab (Zoöl.), the fiddler crab. -- Fighting fish (Zoöl.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.

To make f [Obs.] All his hairy breast with blood was filed.Spenser. For Banquo's issue have I filed mind.Shak.

ve; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.

To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. Burrill.

In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance. [Written also firmaun.]

Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

To pproceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. Milton.

A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.

An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.[Obs.] Wiseman.

lastic force (Physiol.), the force which presumably acts in the growth and repair of the tissues. -- Vital force (Physiol.), that force or power which is inherent in organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vital phenomena of the body, as distinguished from the physical forces generally known.…

Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.

lt of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort. Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. Dryden. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Sh…

circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France cor de chasse. -- French leave, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. -- French pie Etym: [French (here used in sense of "foreign") + pie a mag…

The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.

To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

ments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.