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A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent…

Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence. Resultant force or motion (Mech.), a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more motions combined. See Composition of forces, under Composition.…

A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie. Sallies were made by the Spaniards, but they were beaten in with loss. Bacon.

That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk. With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. prior.

Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church. Crabb.

To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

he ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.

spout for conducting water from the roof of a building. Addison. "A conduit with three issuing spouts." Shak. In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope.

embarrassed. -- To make a stand, to halt for the purpose of offering resistance to a pursuing enemy.

Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. "The stream of beneficence." Atterbury. "The stream of emigration." Macaulay.

Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream. His nodding helm emits a streamy ray. Pope.

ful summer, are too apt, upon the strength of it, to neglect their preparations for the ensuing campaign." Addison.

The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow.

A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

ates army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadier general, called commissary…

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]

Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. Mortimer.

A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.