brim

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water

   Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

   • As the bright ſunne, vvhat time his fierie teme / Tovvards the vveſterne brim begins to dravv, / Gins to abate the brightneſſe of his beme, / And feruour of his flames ſomevvhat adavv: […]
2. 2

   To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.

   • Arrange the board and brim the glass.
   • Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”
3. 3

   To fill (something) fully.

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   1. 4

      To be full until almost overflowing.

      • The room brimmed with people.
      • The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine.
      • It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
   2. 5

      The sea

      The sea; ocean; water; flood.

   3. 6

      Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”)

      Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).

      • Sometimes her daddy would take her fishing for catfish or brim (bream) out on the lake in his john boat.
   4. 7

      Of a boar (“male pig”)

      Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.

   5. 8

      Of a sow

      Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.

   6. 9

      The period when a sow (“female pig”) is ready to mate

      The period when a sow (“female pig”) is ready to mate; a heat, an oestrus, a rut; also, an act of a boar (“male pig”) and sow mating.

      • You ſhall ſay […] Boare […] goeth to his […] Brymme.
   7. 10

      Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.

      Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”).

   8. 11

      An irascible, violent woman.

      • Can mortal ſcoundrels thee perplex, / And the great brim of brimſtones vex?
      • She rav'd, ſhe abus'd me, as ſplenetic mad; / She's a vixen, a brim; zounds! ſhe's all that is bad.
   9. 12

      A surname.

   10. 13

       A locality in the Shire of Yarriambiack, north western Victoria, Australia.

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