a. Also 1 suðmest, Sc. 5 southmaist, 6 -mest. [f. SOUTH adv.: see -MOST.] Most southerly; southernmost.

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c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., I. vii. 40. Ða suðmestan Æthiopian hæfdon bryne for ðære hæte.

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c. 1470.  Henry, Wallace, VIII. 1091. The southmaist part off Ingland we sall se.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 626. The southmest part la narrest France that tyde, This ilk Canutus gat.

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1623.  Whitbourne, Newfoundland, 4. It lies the Southmost of any Harbor.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., I. 408. From Aroer to Nebo, and the wild Of Southmost Abarim.

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1756.  J. Willme, Sepherah Shelosh, 201. His Nativity happened in the Southmost middle Part of Lancashire.

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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.

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1855.  Bailey, Mystic, etc. 116. To hills of heaven, and southmost shores Unbroken, of peninsular Malay.

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1896.  G. A. Smith, Bk. Twelve Prophets, I. 312, note. Hermon, the southmost and highest summits of Anti-Lebanon.

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