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ˈnorthmost, a. Now rare.
Also 1, 6 -mest.
[See -most.]
Most northerly, northernmost.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. vii. 40 Sciþþie þa norðmestan hæfdon unᵹewunelice hæton. a1000Boeth. Metr. ix. 43 Oð ða norðmestan næssan on eorðan. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 303 To this Eufride the northmest part tha gaif. 1564Maitland Let. in Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 86 Upon my Progress towards the Northmost Parts of our Realm. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 109 The Northmost Ile of the Syclades. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton (1906) 72 The great river..at the northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 118 Bearing from the Northmost Point S. by E. about eighteen Leagues. 1888Swinburne Armada iii. i, Darker far than the tempests are that sweep the skies of her northmost clime. 1921R. L. Jack (title) Northmost Australia. |