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Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.

All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front. Chancel aisle (Arch.), the aisle which passes on either side of or around the chancel. -- Chancel arch (Arch.), the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal win…

An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part. From the four corners of the earth they come. Shak.

The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.

Farthest; remotest; at the very end. Tylor.

At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. Arbuthnot.

Most distant; farthest. A spacious cave within its farmost part. Dryden.

Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

o walk; also, to dance. If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest. Dryden.

. -- Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. -- Fore piece, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. -- Fore plane, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. Knight. -…

superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, 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.

Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8.

sidered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance. Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. Neh. viii. 18. F…

Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]

Farthest north.