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noun

Brim n.

The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything. "Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim I would remove it with an anxious pity."

The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border. "The feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water."

The rim of a hat.

verb

Brim v. t. To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top. "Arrange the board and brim the glass."

Brim v. i. (past & past part. brimmed; pres. part. brimming) To be full to the brim. "The brimming stream."

To brim over (literally or figuratively), to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, a cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.

adjective

Breme adj.

Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel. (Obs.) "From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air."

Famous; renowned; well known. (Written also brim and brimme)

Brim adj. Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Brim'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Brim" Quotes from Famous Books

... pinched up a hole in my waist-belt, scrugged my bonnet, and set out at a deer-stalker's run across the moor. I splashed in hags and stumbled among roots; I made wild leaps across poisonous-looking holes stewing to the brim with coloured water; I made long detours to find the most fordable part of a stream that twisted back and forth, a very devil's cantrip, upon my way. Then a smirr of rain came at my back and chilled ...

— John Splendid - The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn • Neil Munro

... Scot, Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us; For you shall read that my great-grandfather Never went with his forces into France But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, With ample and brim fullness of his force, Galling the gleaned land with hot assays, Girdling with grievous siege castles and towns; That England, being empty of defence, Hath shook and trembled at the ...

— The Life of King Henry V • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]

... The pear is not ripe!" He stood apart from them, near the chapel-door, where the light was strong, his silver watch open in his left hand, his form erect, his right hand lifted to the brim of his hat, his eyes upon ...

— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable

... there's a good fellow, and see if you can find me a lady's hat of dark-blue straw, wide brim, trimmed chiefly with ...

— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett

... never seen his girl like this in her life! What business had her lip to tremble in the middle of a sentence, or her eyes to brim with sudden tears, making her turn her back on her adoring Dad, and busy herself ...

— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice

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