a. (sb.) Obs. rare. [f. TRANS- 7 + L. meridiān-us MERIDIAN.] Beyond the or a meridian. In quot. absol. as sb., the region beyond the meridian in the Atlantic which separates the New from the Old World; the Western Hemisphere.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lxvi. 63. It micht have cuming in schortar quhyll Fra Calzecot and the new-fund Yle, The partis of Transmeridiane; Quhilk to considder is ane pane.
