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southmost, a.|ˈsaʊθməst, -məʊst|
Also 1 suðmest, Sc. 5 southmaist, 6 -mest.
[f. south adv.: see -most.]
Most southerly; southernmost.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. vii. 40 Ða suðmestan æthiopian hæfdon bryne for ðære hæte. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1091 The southmaist part off Ingland we sall se. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 626 The southmest part la narrest France that tyde, This ilk Canutus gat. 1623Whitbourne Newfoundland 4 It lies the Southmost of any Harbor. 1667Milton P.L. i. 408 From Aroer to Nebo, and the wild Of Southmost Abarim. 1756J. Willme Sepherah Shelosh 201 His Nativity happened in the Southmost middle Part of Lancashire. 1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 123 The greatest number of the edge-seams decline much about the angle forty-five, though some of the southmost of the coals are higher. 1855Bailey Mystic, etc. 116 To hills of heaven, and southmost shores Unbroken, of peninsular Malay. 1896G. A. Smith Bk. Twelve Prophets I. 312 Hermon, the southmost..summits of Anti-Lebanon. |