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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Leading; foremost.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Most advanced; most forward; first in a line or order of progression: as, the headmost ship in a fleet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Most advanced; most forward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Closest to the front of a group or pack

Etymologies

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head +‎ -most

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