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eastmost, a.|ˈiːstməst, -məʊst|
Also 6 Sc. eistmest.
[OE. had éastmest adj., superl. f. east adv. + -m-, -st, suffixes (see -most); but continuity is not proved, and the word was prob. formed afresh at a later period.]
That is most easterly in position. Now poet.; see easternmost.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 201 The eistmest part of Britane to the se. 1587Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) II. 306 The eastmoste bed, next to the windowe, in the hye chamber. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. viii. 75 Bassora is the eastmost City..in the Turkish Dominions. 1825Ld. Cockburn Mem. i. 2 My father purchased the eastmost house on the south side of the Meadows. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 12 Up the eastmost of the beech-slopes brown He turned. |