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Westmost, -mest, -ma(i)st, adj. Also: vestmest, wastmost, woistmaist. [ME west most (1297).] Most westerly, furthest west. Also absol.(a) 1456 Exch. R. VI 224.
Onerat se … de ix li. de Mydmeststede de Warmod. Et de ix li. de Westmeststede ejusdem 1562 Fam. Rose 236.
Ane lang stane outwith the dike at the westmest manurit grund of Craittinreith 1585 Perth B. Ct. 20 Dec.
Vestmest c1590 Fowler I 63/146.
Evin from the Inds to Thale Ile, the westmest part without 1593 Edinb. Test. XXVI 110b.
In the westmest buytht of merchandice xxiiij stane of fleische woll 1595 Reg. Great S. 90/2.
Passand north … to the westmest dyk of the eistmest cornefauld of the saidis landis of A[rdormy] 1655 Glasgow B. Rec. II 315.
That twa or thrie of the foirmest furmes of the loft in the westmest end of the innerwork, be maid readie … for thes young men … of guid faschion(b) 1496–7 Acta Conc. II 45.
The tak of the westmaist quarter of the landis of the … toune of Redy 1530–1 Reg. Great S. 219/2.
Terras nuncupatas Westmaist-sett de Foulschelis 1531 Reg. Dunferm. 362.
Westmast 1602 Reg. Great S. 486/1.
To the westmaist ground of ane auld dyke passing north to the kingis commoun hie gait 1607–8 Misc. Spald. C. V 134.
For the annuall … of the thrie westmast merchand buithis(c) 1510 Laing Chart. 70.
The haile foirland of the said tenement with the westmost ȝharde 1632 Lithgow Trav. i 23.
Gayetta, the west-most confine … of the Neopolitan kingdome 1638 Edinb. B. Rec. VII 206.
[The council] had apointed for ane armour hous the west most laich hous under the jame of the parliament house 1678 Alford Rec. 290.
The westmost cheik of the door of the kirk of Keig 1679 Sheriffhall Coal Accompt.
[For] redding of the westmost stair(d) 1577 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 37b (see Wester adj. b (b)).
Woistmaist(e) 1596–7 Misc. Spald. C. V 121.
Wastmostabsol. 1554 Edinb. Old Acc. II 20.
I am to be chargit with the cordiners' choppis … the westmost, quhilk is callit Johne Mitchellis chope, giffand x s. yeir