a. 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.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 201. The eistmest part of Britane to the se.
1587. Wills & Inv. N. C. (1860), II. 306. The eastmoste bed, next to the windowe, in the hye chamber.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., I. viii. 75. Bassora is the eastmost City … in the Turkish Dominions.
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., i. (1874), 2. My father purchased the eastmost house on the south side of the Meadows.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., II. III. 12. Up the eastmost of the beech-slopes brown He turned.
