ˈwesternmost, a.
[f. western a. + -most. Cf. westermost.]
Farthest towards the west; most westerly.
| 1703 Lond. Gaz. No. 3937/3 The Westernmost Rocks of the Minques. 1778 Forster Observ. Voy. World 197 There is a small species of scorpion in the tropical isles of the South-Sea, but more common to the Westernmost than the Society Isles. 1846 G. Warburton Hochelaga II. 191 Not more than four thousand square miles of all this westernmost country is capable of cultivation. 1884 H. H. Jackson Ramona ii, The two westernmost rooms had been added on. 1892 J. L. Allen Blue-Grass Region etc. (1900) 259 Pine Mountain, the westernmost ridge of the Alleghany system. |