Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Emit

Emit , transitive verb

[Latin emittere to send out; e out + mittere to send. See Mission.]

1.
To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.
Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. — Prior
2.
To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
No State shall... emit bills of credit. — Const. of the U. S