northermostadj.

1572 H. Hawks in Writings & Corr. 2 Richard Hakluyts (1935) 96 The comming into this place hath three channels, and the best of all is the Northermost.

1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 113 Betwixt the Northermost two hilles.

1613 T. Best Jrnl. 11 Apr. in Voy. to East Indies (1934) 50 At the S.E. end of the northermost iland lye 6 or 8 rocks.

a1687 W. Petty Papers (1927) I. 265 Now Supposing that of the 18 millions of acres in Scotland, the northermost 6 millions to be worth but 200^m per annum and the rest 700^m per annum.

1707 London Gaz. No. 4350/3 The Northermost Black Buoy lieth on the North End of the outer middle.

1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) i. 108 The northermost part of the..river.

1791 G. Carter Narr. Loss Grosvenor xvii. 50 They had got out of the country of the Caffrees, and had reached the northermost of the Dutch settlements.

1835 in Rec. Town of Brookhaven (1880) 341 We the subscribers have set up monuments of Stone at the two places designated..(viz) One at the Northermost range pole on the Beach.

1866 Harper's Mag. Feb. 383/1 Sutherland itself was so called because this northermost county of Scotland was nevertheless to the south of Norway.

1871 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece (new ed.) I. iii. 447 Centuries were occupied in exploring..these northermost of the maritime territories accessible to the Hellenes.

1921 Ecology 2 134 Even as they occupy the northermost frontier of their race,..any variance can readily be ascribed to a corresponding variance in the local habitat.

1952 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 46 613 This dispute concerned the three northermost counties of Norway.

1985 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 12 273/2 The Maghlaq fault of southern Malta appears to be the northermost fault of the Malta graben in the Sicilian channel.