Brim

noun brims

1. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge. Yet ſtill that direful ſtroke kept on his vvay, / And falling heauie on Cambellos creſt, / Strooke him ſo hugely, that in ſvvovvne he lay, / And in his head an hideous vvound impreſt: / And ſure had it not happily found reſt / Vpon the brim of his brode plated ſhield, / It vvould haue cleft his brai
2. The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container. The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
3. A projecting rim.
4. especially That of a hat. He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.
5. archaic, poetic The upper edge or surface of water. And as they that bare the Arke were come vnto Jordan, and the feet of the prieſt that bare the Arke, were dipped in the brimme of the water, (for Jordan ouerfloweth all his banks at the time of harueſt) That the waters which came downe from aboue, ſtood and roſe vp vpon an heape very farre, […]
6. obsolete The surface of the ground. [T]he place, of that fyre vnder the earthe, […] is not nye the centre of the earth, bicauſe then, it would eaſily bée corrupted, for the earth, is ther moſt pure and therfore, the vertue doth more floriſh, ſo that it is moſt colde, neither is the place of the fyre, vnder the brimme of the Earth, for
7. figuratively, obsolete A brink or edge. For except thou haue borne the croſſe of aduerſitie and temptacion, and haſte felte thy ſelfe brought vnto the very brymme of desperacion, yea ⁊ vnto hells gates, thou canſt neuer medle with the ſentence of predeſtinacion without thine owne harme, and without ſecret wrathe and grudging inwardly agay

verb brims · brimming · brimmed · brim

1. transitive 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.
2. figuratively, transitive To fill (something) fully.
3. also, figuratively, intransitive To be full until almost overflowing. The room brimmed with people.

Similar: bulge

noun brims

1. obsolete The sea; ocean; water; flood.

noun brim · brims

1. Australia, US 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.

verb brims · brimming · brimmed

1. archaic, transitive Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut. Svvine alone of all creatures vvhen they be brimming, froth and fome at the mouth. And as for the Bore, if he heare the grunting of a Sovv that ſeekes to be brimmed, unleſſe he may come to her, vvill forſake his meat, untill he be leane and poore: and ſhe againe vvill be ſo farre enraged, that ſhe v
2. archaic, intransitive Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.

noun brims

1. archaic 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.

adjective more brim · most brim

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

noun brims

1. UK, archaic, slang An irascible, violent woman. Can mortal ſcoundrels thee perplex, / And the great brim of brimſtones vex?

proper noun Brims

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