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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

shot

, equivalent to

scot

share, reckoning. Cf. the phrase

to cast up an account

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

Shakespeare

We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the

upshot

of man’s pleasurable existence.

De Quincey.

Noun.

[up and shot.] Final issue; conclusion; end; as the upshot of the matter.

Here is the upshot and result of all.

Upside down, the upper part undermost. As a phrase, this denotes in confusion; in complete disorder.