Result

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A flying back; resilience.

II. Result ·vi To leap back; to Rebound.

III. Result ·noun The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

IV. Result ·vi To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.

V. Result ·vi To come out, or have an issue; to Terminate; to have consequences;

— followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.

VI. Result ·noun That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.

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