a. Now rare or Obs. [f. WESTER a. + -MOST.] Lying or situated farthest west; = WESTERNMOST.

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1555.  Eden, Decades (Arb.), 381. The Westermost poynte of the Trepoyntes.

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1598.  Hakluyt, Voy., I. 337. The riuer Ob is the most Westermost part thereof.

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1625.  N. Carpenter, Geog. Del., I. iii. (1635), 65. The Meridian about the Westermost of the Azores.

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1697.  Dampier, Voy., I. 421. Three of the Islands were pretty large; the Westermost is the biggest.

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1727.  A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., II. 24. Sagor the westermost Chanel of the Ganges.

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1775.  Romans, Florida, App. 37. At the east end of the westermost key is another channel 8 feet deep.

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1821.  Southey, Vis. Judgement, i. 10. From far Glaramara, Bleacrag, and Maidenmawr, to Grizedal and westermost Withop.

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