Brim

Quick meaning: Brim is a noun meaning Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.
2. To fill (something) fully.
3. (intransitive, also figurative) To be full until almost overflowing.
4. (transitive) Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.
5. (intransitive) Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.
6. (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
7. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.

Example Sentences

[T]hou ſhalt finde him vnder neath a brim, / Of ſayling Pynes that edge yon Mountaine in.

[T]he flovvers, ſtanding vpon ſlender footeſtalkes; the brimmes or edges vvhereof are of a yellovv colour, the middle part purple: […]

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: […]

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, […]

Word Forms

• brims
• brimming
• brimmed
• brimmest
• brimmedst
• brimmeth

Synonyms for brim

Depending on context, synonyms include bulge, teem, bream, breme, bitch, brimstone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rim, lip, brink, board, ceiling, sill.

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