a. Obs. Forms: 1 ufemest, -myst, 3 ufenmeste; 3 uue- (huue-), uvemest, vuemest(e, uuemaste. [Late OE. ufemest, -myst (rare for yfemest, yfemyst), superl. of ufera (comparative, UVER a.), f. root uf-: see OVEMEST a., and cf. UMEST a.] Uppermost: topmost; highest.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 76. On midne dreʓ bið seo sunne on ðam ufemestum ryne stiʓende. Ibid. (c. 1000), Genesis, xl. 17 (Laud MS.). On þam ufemystan windle wære maneʓra cynna ʓebac.
c. 1200. [see OVEMEST a. α].
c. 1205. Lay., 6085. Vp heo hine duden heȝe an ufenmeste þan ture.
a. 1225. Bestiary, 775. Vp he ros … and steȝ to heuene uvemest.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 328. Heo hudet eke hore ihole cloðes, & doð an alre vuemeste [a. 1275 Cotton MS. uueward] on viterokes al to torene.
