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▪ I. brimming, vbl. n.1|ˈbrɪmɪŋ|
[f. brim v.1]
The action of the verb brim1: said of swine.
1530Palsgr. 824/2 A brimmyng as a bore or sowe doth, en rouyt. 1601Holland Pliny I. 230 They stand lightly to the first brimming. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm i. xxiv. 106 They begin to grow hot and goe a brimming. 1671Charente Let. Customs Tafiletta 46 The wild Boars are most furious creatures, especially in Brimmin time.
▪ II. brimming, vbl. n.2|ˈbrɪmɪŋ|
[f. brim v.3 + -ing1.]
Being full to the brim, overflowing.
1837H. Martineau Soc. in Amer. III. 73 The gushing talk of Judge Story, the brimmings of a full head and heart. 1878G. Meredith in Macm. Mag. Oct., Something friends have told her fills her heart to brimming.
▪ III. ˈbrimming, ppl. a.
[f. brim v.3 + -ing2.]
1. That rises to the brim of its vessel, basin, or bed; that fills to overflowing.
1667Milton P.L. iv. 336 They..in the rinde, Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream. 1857Emerson Poems 42 The brimming brook invites a leap. 1864Tennyson Brook 64 And out again I curve and flow, To join the brimming river.
fig.1864Spectator 424 All true poetry really requires a brimming vitality of feeling and impression.
2. Of a vessel: Brim-full, full to overflowing.
1697Dryden Virg. Past. iii. 43 To store the Dairy, with a brimming Pail. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 317 Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crowned. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 48 To fill the brimming cup.
3. advb.
1848W. E. Aytoun Danube & Eux. 10, I am brimming full and red. |