Brim
Brim ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English brim, brimme, Anglo-Saxon brymme edge, border; akin to Icelandic barmr, Swedish bram, Danish bramme, German brame, brame. Possibly the same word as Anglo-Saxon brim surge, sea, and properly meaning, the line of surf at the border of the sea, and akin to Latin fremere to roar, murmur. Compare Breeze a fly.]
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
The rim of a hat. — Wordsworth
Brim ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
To be full to the brim.
The brimming stream.
Collocations (1)
To brim over , 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.
Brim , transitive verb
To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
Arrange the board and brim the glass.
Brim , adjective
Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme. [Obsolete]