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Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

me passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

ritable foundation in a university, as in scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

ies. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.

y, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

One who pursues the business of calendering. My good friend the calender. Cawper.

The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.

ent, it shall contantly maintain its proper relation to the opposing point. -- Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture…

er coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer;…

A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a cent…

act with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions, The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.

Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle.

Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. [Obs.] This carnal cur Preys on the issue of his mother's body. Shak. Carnal knowledge, sexual intercourse; -- used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man.

opic monobasic acid, C10H15O5N3, obtained as a cleavage product from an acid of muscle tissue.

lants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election. "The greater part carries it." Shak. The carrying of our main point. Addison.

A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.