Category:Upshot

Up"shot`, n. Etym: [up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf. the phrase to cast up an account.]

Defn: final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the Result; the consummation. I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Shak. We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot Of man's pleasurable existence. De quincey.