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/bɹɪm/ · noun
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 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.
Use brim when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Brim means Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge..
Common synonyms include bulge, teem, bream, breme.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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