Con·clu·sion n.
 1. The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
    A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.   --Prescott.
 2. Final decision; determination; result.
    And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.   --Shak.
 3. Any inference or result of reasoning.
 4. Logic The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism.
    He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion.   --Addison.
 5. Drawing of inferences. [Poetic]
 Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes
 And still conclusion.   --Shak.
 6. An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn. [Obs.]
    We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.   --Bacon.
 7. Law (a) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, “against the peace,” etc. (b) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
 Conclusion to the country Law, the conclusion of a pleading by which a party “puts himself upon the country,” i.e., appeals to the verdict of a jury. --Mozley & W.
 In conclusion. (a) Finally. (b) In short.
 To try conclusions, to make a trial or an experiment.
 Like the famous ape,
 To try conclusions, in the basket creep.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- Inference; deduction; result; consequence; end; decision. See Inference.

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