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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Southmest, adj. Also: southt-, southy- and -mast, -maist, -most. [OE súðmest. Cf. 17th c. Eng. southmost (1623).] Most southerly, farthest south. Also absol.(a) 1375 Barb. xvi 266.
That is the southmast toune … That in Irland may fundyn be c1475 Wall. viii 1091.
The southmaist part off Ingland we sall se 1493–4 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 48.
The southtmest innys wytht the pertenentis 1535 Stewart 39386.
The southmest part la narrest France … This ilk Canutus gat 1569 Canongate Ct. Bk. 94.
The said Agnes … tuke to hir parte the said southmest heich hous now occupiit be Harie Schang 1575 Rec. Earld. Orkney 138. 1578 Aberd. Chart. 337.
Up the dyk of the said fauld wastwart quhill it cum to the sausar stane in the ground fourtie elnis or therby within the southmest therof and therfra to the said southmaist nuik 1595 Skene in Misc. Stair Soc. I 141.
Arane, the southmost ile of all the greit ilis 1693 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 7 March.
The southmost check of the hall is the just mids of the samyne(b) 1541 Elgin Rec. I 60.
The assise deliuerit that the souythmest but of ouyr deid brigis … pertinis to the commonteabsol. 1578 Aberd. Chart. 337 (see (a) above).