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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,697 words match “MOST”

FOREMOST a.
First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak.
FOREMOSTLY adv.
In the foremost place or order; among the foremost. J. Webster.
FURTHERMOST a.
Most remote; furthest.
HAEMOSTATIC a.
Same Hemostatic.
HARMOST n.
A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.
HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST adv.
With the head foremost.
HEADMOST a.
Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.
HEMOSTATIC a. 3 definitions
Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.
HIGHMOST a.
Highest. [Obs.] Shak.
HINDERMOST; HINDMOST a.
Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2.
HITHERMOST a.
Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.
HOMOSTYLED a.
Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.
INMOST a.
Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost. And pierce the inmost center of the earth. Shak. The silent, slow, consuming fires, Which on my inmost vitals prey. Addison.
INNERMOST a.
Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8.
INNERMOSTLY adv.
In the innermost place. [R.] His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.
LOWERMOST a.
Lowest.
MIDDLEMOST a.
Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
MIDMOST a.
Middle; middlemost. Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past. Byron.
NETHERMOST a.
Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss. Milton.
NORTHERNMOST a.
Farthest north.
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