Final issue; conclusion; the sum and stuff; the end; the result; the completion. "I can not pursue with any
safe this sport to the upshot." (Shak) "We account it
frailty that threescore years and ten create the
upshot of man's pleasurable existence." (De Quincey)
Origin: Up + shot,
equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf. The
phrase to
cast up an account.
Source: Websters Vocabulary