Meanings
- superlativesuperlative form of hind: most hind
Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 1841 more example
The foremost chain-man goes forward and the hindmost one follows, and stands with his hand above the first pin, and moves the foremost assistant to the right or left, till he is exactly on the line; when he is ordered to stick in his second pin.
1812, John Ainslie, “Section 2, Art. I: Of the Chain”, in Comprehensive Treatise on Land Surveying, Comprising the Theory and Practice in All its Branches, page 15
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelocated farthest to the rear
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishhindemest
- Middle Englishhindemest
- Englishhindmost
From Middle English hindemest, from Old English hindemest, superlative of hindema; compare Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌿𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (hindumists). By surface analysis, hind + -most.
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