a. Also 1 suðmest, Sc. 5 southmaist, 6 -mest. [f. SOUTH adv.: see -MOST.] Most southerly; southernmost.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., I. vii. 40. Ða suðmestan Æthiopian hæfdon bryne for ðære hæte.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, VIII. 1091. The southmaist part off Ingland we sall se.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 626. The southmest part la narrest France that tyde, This ilk Canutus gat.
1623. Whitbourne, Newfoundland, 4. It lies the Southmost of any Harbor.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 408. From Aroer to Nebo, and the wild Of Southmost Abarim.
1756. J. Willme, Sepherah Shelosh, 201. His Nativity happened in the Southmost middle Part of Lancashire.
1789. J. 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.
1855. Bailey, Mystic, etc. 116. To hills of heaven, and southmost shores Unbroken, of peninsular Malay.
1896. G. A. Smith, Bk. Twelve Prophets, I. 312, note. Hermon, the southmost and highest summits of Anti-Lebanon.