a. Now rare. [f. SOUTHER a. Cf. SOUTHMOST a.] Most southerly; southernmost.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 381. The southermost [is] lyke vnto a iebet.
1626. Vaughan, Gold. Fleece (title-p.), The Southermost Part of the Iland, commonly called the Newfovndland.
1653. W. Ramesey, Astrol. Restored, 94. The southermost of the 2 hindermost stars in the brest of the Whale.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, I. (Globe), 254. The Southermost End of the Island.
1761. Phil. Trans., LII. 174. The consequent and southermost limb of the sun.
1814. Scott, Diary, 31 Aug., in Lockhart. United to the continent by a key … built along the southermost channel.
c. 1850. Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 78. The southermost vessel … will have the wind veering.
