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ˈumest, a. Sc. Now rare.
Also 5 humest, 6 vmest, wmest, 8–9 umist, 9 eemest; 5 humast, 5–6 um-, vmast, 9 eemost, yimost.
[OE. ufemest: see ovemest a.]
†1. Of clothes: Uppermost, outermost; spec. applied to the coverlet of a bed, claimed by the priest as a perquisite on the death of a parishioner.
c1400Sc. Trojan War ii. 1932 Pallamydes..tuke of baith hois & schone, And syne his vmast clath. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 707 Wallace gert tak in haist thar humest weid. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 3900 From this day furth, thay salbe cleane denudit Baith of cors-present, cow, and vmest claith. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 196 Preistis, tak na kyis, The vmest claith ȝe sall quyte clame. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 349 Thow gaif againe to the parochinaris the kow and the wmest cloth.
2. Of things or places: Lying uppermost or highest.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvii. 4652 Endlange þe wode war wayis twa: Þe erl in þe vmast lay of þa. 1456Sir G. Hay Gov. Princes Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 123 The ground of the stomak is..mare forcy of degestioun na the humast part of the stomak. 1513Douglas æneid xii. vi. 172 Turnus..evin betwix the helm can him arras And vmast roll or hem of his curas. 1537Reg. Privy Seal Scot. II. 352/2 The umest hous and duelling place of the land callit the Abbay ȝet. 1566in Ramsay Bamff Charters (1915) 103 Quhill it cum to the entres of the umest forkis of the burn. 1710Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas' æneis, Umist, S. upmost, uppermost. c1800–in glossaries and texts (Kinc., Aberdeen, Moray, Caithness, etc.: Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Eemost).
3. Most important or prominent. ? Obs.
1513Douglas æneid i. vi. 66 Lang war the iniuris, the dowtis lang to be tawld; Bot I the vmest of the mater sall hauld. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 284 The Earle of Angus become werie prude and insolent.., thinkand quho ewer had right to the autorietie he sould be vmest. |