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Upmaist, Uppermaist, adj., n. and adv. Also: upmest, -most(e, upper-, wppermost. [e.m.E. wpwrmwste adv. (1481), vppermost n. (Caxton), vpmoste adj. (1560).]

A. adj. 1. Outermost. = Umast adj. 1. 1568 Lyndesay Pref. (STS) 398.
Beand … denudit of thair vpmaist garmentis, thay war fund bot verray fulis
1609 Skene Reg. Maj. ii 11 (see Acts I 325/2 in Umast adj. 1).
Vpmaist
1645 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXX 148.
Ane upmost wilicot of small pleding

b. Upmaist clathe, = Umast adj. 1 b. 1554 Duncan Laideus Test. 166.
To the vicar I leif diligence and cure To tak the vpmest claith
c1560–70 Liber Dryburgh 359.
Nonpayment of the corspresentis vpmest claithes and pasche ofrandis
1570 Bk. Univ. Kirk I 194.
Mr. Robert Lumsden … craved a defalcation of the thrids of the vicarages of Logie-Buchan and Cushny, in respect of inlaiking of corpus presents, upmost cloaths, and pasch fynes
1575–6 Shetland Doc. 170.
Corps presentis, upmaist claythis, Pasche fynes and offerandis

2. Highest, uppermost. = Umast adj. 2.(a) 1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines II 17b.
Keperis of the vpmest and lower pompes
1623 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 282.
The haill upmest cours of the haill arshleir
1648 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 88.
To build ane dyk from the vpmost nuik of the yaird
1675 Edinb. B. Rec. X 246.
To take doun the roof of the upmost new housses
(b) a1578 Pitsc. II 302/13.
John Thorntownis hous and Patrick Eggaris hous quhilk ar the vpper maist housis in Edinburgh
1619 Perth Kirk S. MS 2 April.
In the North Inch at the vppermaist golff hoill
1692 Edinb. B. Rec. XII 101.
The committee … find the spate of water hes raised severall cope stones in the uppermost damhead

3. transf. Of the highest level, most advanced. Cf. Umast adj. 3. 1626 Edinb. Univ. Chart. 108.
To teach tua publict lessounes of divinitie in the weik in the audience of the principall and regents and the tuo upmost classes

B. absol. as noun. The highest or uppermost (one); the topmost place. = Umast n. 1.(a) 1624 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXXII 183.
Thre stand beds, the upmest hes a stand of ȝellow curtings
(b) 1669 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 255.
With his Majesties armes in the wppermost, and this burghes armes in the nethermost

C. adv. a. In the uppermost position. = Umast adv. 1. b. In the highest position for precedence or rank. = Umast adv. 2.a. 1632 Dumbarton B. Rec. 38.
Sche grippit the said Isobell and baith went to the erd, the said Martha upmaist
b. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4680.
My lorde Abbot, rycht venerabyll, Ay marschellit vpmoste at the tabyll

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