brim
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English brymme, brimme (“bank or edge of a lake or river; shore of a sea; brink; rim”); of unclear origin; compare Middle High German brem (“margin”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”)
* Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”)
* obsolete German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”)
* Swedish bräm (“border, edge”)
* Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”)
Inflected forms:
form: brims
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brimming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brimmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: brim
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: brim
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: brimmed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: brim
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: brimmest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: brimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: brimmedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: brims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brimmeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: brimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: brim
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: brimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: brim
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: brimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: brim
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: brimming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brimmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
pos: noun
examples: 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 braine dovvne to his breſt.
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: […]
And all the vvhile, that ſame diſcourteous Knight, / Stood on the further bancke beholding him, / At vvhoſe calamity, for more deſpight / He laught, and mockt to ſee him like to ſvvim. / But vvhen as Calepine came to the brim [of the river], / And ſavv his carriage paſt that perill vvell, / His heart vvith vengeaunce invvardly did ſvvell, / And forth at laſt did breake in ſpeaches ſharpe and fell.
The ſea Colevvoort grovveth naturally vpon the bayche [beach?] and brimmes of the ſea, vvhere there is no earth to be ſeene, but ſande and rovvling pebble ſtones, vvhich thoſe that dvvell neere the ſea do call Bayche.
[T]he flovvers, ſtanding vpon ſlender footeſtalkes; the brimmes or edges vvhereof are of a yellovv colour, the middle part purple: […]
There is another hearbe of the ſame name, and like in effect, but different in forme from it, […] If the haire of the eye-lids be once pulled forth, and then the edges or brims be annointed therevvith, it vvill keepe them for ever comming up againe.
I vvill giue thee for thy food, / No fiſh that vſeth in the mudd, / But Trout and Pike that loue to ſvvim, / VVhere the Grauell from the brim [of a river], / Th[r]ough the pure ſtreames may be ſeene, […]
[T]hou ſhalt finde him vnder neath a brim, / Of ſayling Pynes that edge yon Mountaine in.
The floor vvas paved vvith broad Bricks, and in the middle of the floor ſtood an old ruſty Iron Bell on its Brims. This Bell vvas about tvvo feet high, ſtanding flat on the ground; the brims on vvhich it ſtood vvere about 16 inches diameter. From the brims it did taper avvay a little tovvards the head, much like our Bells; but that the brims did not turn out ſo much as ours do.
A primrose by a river's brim / A yellow primrose was to him, / And it was nothing more.
By garden porches on the brim, / The costly doors flung open wide, / Gold glittering thro' lamplight dim, / And broider'd sophas on each side: […]
gloss: Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
pos: noun
examples: The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
Better spare at brim than at bottom, say I.
And in her other hand a cup ſhe hild, / The vvhich vvas vvith Nepenthe to the brim vpfild.
To make the comming houre oreflovv vvith ioy, / And pleaſure drovvne the brim.
To the Boy Cæſar ſend this grizled head, and he vvill fill thy vviſhes to the brimme, / VVith Principalities.
Heere, vvith a Cup that's ſtur'd vnto the brim, / As do you loue, fill to your Miſtris lippes, / VVee drinke this health to you.
[H]e made a molten Sea of ten cubites, from brim to brim, round in compaſſe, and fiue cubites the height thereof, and a line of thirtie cubites did compaſſe it round about.
Fill me that maſſy goblet to the brim.
Saw I that insect on this goblet brim / I would remove it.
Thy city heap'd with envy to the brim, / Any that the measure overflows its bounds, / Held me in brighter days.
He frothed his bumpers to the brim; / A jollier year we shall not see.
But hither bring us thy potation, / And quickly fill the beaker to the brim!
gloss: Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
pos: noun
gloss: Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.
And therefore vvould he put his bonnet on, / Vnder vvhoſe brim the gaudie ſunne vvould peepe, […]
[…] Kneeling upon the Ground, he took up vvith his Hat, vvhich by Cocking the Brims he turn'd into a kind of Cup, ſuch a proportion of VVater that he quench'd his Thirſt vvith it; […]
In head-dress they affect a certain freedom: hats with partial brim, without crown, or with only a loose, hinged, or valved crown; in the former case, they sometimes invert the hat and wear it brim uppermost, like a University-cap, with what view is unknown.
gloss: Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: 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, […]
The steed along the drawbridge flies, / Just as it trembled on the rise; / Not lighter does the swallow skim / Along the smooth lake's level brim.
gloss: Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [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 if it were ther conteyned, it would burne vp the plants, and whatſoeuer is in the face of the ſame, and therfore be concludeth, that it is in the middle hollowneſſes, betwene theſe two extremes, that is, béetwene the centre, ⁊ the face of the earthe, […]
gloss: Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
examples: 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 agaynſt God, for otherwiſe it ſhal not be poſſible for the [thee] to thinke that God is righteous and iuſte.
[T]his cited place lyes upon the very brimme of a noted corruption, vvhich they had, that quote this paſſage, ventur'd to let us read, all men vvould have readily ſeen vvhat grain the teſtimony had bin of, […]
[H]e that lived long in a violent and habituall courſe of ſinne is at the margin and brim of that ſtate of finall reprobation, and ſome men are in it before they be avvare, and to ſome GOD reckons their dayes ſvvifter, and their periods ſhorter.
gloss: To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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?”
gloss: To fill (something) fully.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To be full until almost overflowing.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
intransitive
examples: 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.
Djokovic, brimming with energy and confidence, needed little encouragement and came haring in to chase down a drop shot in the next game, angling away the backhand to break before turning to his supporters to celebrate.
Goalscorer Park was one of a number of England players who will have come off the pitch brimming with confidence.
Synonyms: bulge
Derived words: abrim
brimful
brimfully
brimless
brimmy
broadbrim
halo brim
hatbrim
overbrim
snapbrim
to the brim
underbrim
brimmed
brimmer
brimming
brim over
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: сит
roman: sit
lang: Bulgarian
word: бряг
roman: brjag
lang: Bulgarian
word: край
roman: kraj
lang: Catalan
word: vora
lang: Czech
word: okraj
lang: Dutch
word: boord
lang: Dutch
word: rand
lang: Finnish
word: laita
lang: Finnish
word: reuna
lang: Galician
word: aba
lang: Galician
word: beira
lang: German
word: Rand
lang: Hungarian
word: szél
lang: Italian
word: bordo
lang: Khmer
word: មាត់
roman: mŏət
lang: Middle English
word: brerd
lang: Portuguese
word: aba
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: oir