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Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.

One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

owers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.

The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced.

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

A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.

The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.

Uppermost; outermost. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.

The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline. The motions of the greatest persons in…

Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.

lose hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.