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northmost

northmost \north"most`\ (n[^o]rth"m[=o]st`), a. [AS. nor[eth]mest. Cf. Aftermost.] Lying farthest north; northernmost.

Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique.
--De Foe.

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northmost

a. furthest to the north; most northern.

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northmost

adj. situated farthest north; "Alaska is our northernmost state" [syn: northernmost]

Usage examples of "northmost".

Woodgier on the second of the northmost islands of the Aroe group, where they received a friendly welcome.

He returned to Batavia via the Friendly Islands, Fiji and the north coast of NEW GUINEA, which he believed to be the northmost part of New Holland.

These were the northmost representatives of tree-kind, for the taiga lay at her back.

The work party had bypassed the northmost entrance for this one nearer the city.

Austrian words, but took one of his arms while another Viking took the other, and the five battered warriors limped over the northmost Weiner-Bach bridge.

He was sent with seven other boys across Roke Island to the farthest northmost cape, where stands the Isolate Tower.

Many days behind him and to the southeast lay the independent principality of Rader, once the northmost province of the old Serranthonian Empire, but now broken away in the collapse of the Empire which had followed the extinction of the line of Halbros-Serrantho.

The village was in the northmost province of the kingdom of Deverry, the greatest kingdom in the whole world of Annwnor so Jill had always been told.

It was not one of the great cities, not like Caemlyn or Tar Valon, less than four hundred paces wide along the side he could see and narrower on the others, it seemed, but still a city with high walls and towers and what looked like a fortress at the northmost end.

By the time Erik got to the point where the old jetty reached the northmost dock, he found a company of Palace Guards waiting for him.

I found the northmost hall, put down my backpack, and started rummaging through it.

His room in the northmost tower, the magicians tower as it had become known, provided him with a shortcut through the kitchen, which he used rather than the main doors of the keep.

King Alfred that he dwelt northmost of all Northmen on the land by the Western Sea and he wished to find how far the land lay right north, or whether any man dwelt north of the waste.

Four fingers push in flattest line, From underground, Grave the northmost.