Dictionary entry

Upshot

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Up″shot′ (?), n. [Up + 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. Shak.

We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.