Meaning of brim | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An irascible, violent woman.
   UK, archaic, slang
2. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge. The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container
3. A surname.
4. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
5. The sea; ocean; water; flood.
   obsolete
6. Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
   Australia, US
7. 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.
   archaic
8. The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container
9. A locality in the Shire of Yarriambiack, north western Victoria, Australia.
10. The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
11. A projecting rim. That of a hat
12. A projecting rim.
13. That of a hat
14. That of a hat.
    especially
15. The upper edge or surface of water
16. The upper edge or surface of water.
    archaic, poetic
17. The surface of the ground.
    obsolete
18. A brink or edge.
    figuratively, obsolete

Equivalents

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: […]”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“[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, […]”

“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.”

“Sometimes her daddy would take her fishing for catfish or brim (bream) out on the lake in his john boat.”

“You ſhall ſay […] Boare […] goeth to his […] Brymme.”

“Can mortal ſcoundrels thee perplex, / And the great brim of brimſtones vex?”

“She rav'd, ſhe abus'd me, as ſplenetic mad; / She's a vixen, a brim; zounds! ſhe's all that is bad.”

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