† brimn.¹

Forms: Old English–1500s brim, Old English–Middle English brym, Middle English brymme.

Etymology: Old English brim surf, (poetic) the sea = Old Norse brim surf, sea; probably < the stem brem- roar, rage: see brim v.¹ It became obsolete in Middle English; but was perhaps used by Spenser.

Obsolete.

An old poetical word for the sea; also, ‘flood’, water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun]

sea-floodc893

brimc937

streamc950

foamOE

mereOE

seaOE

sea of (the) oceanc1300

brookc1400

float1477

strand1513

breec1540

burnc1540

broth1558

Thetisie1600

fishpond1604

brine1605

pond1612

Thetisc1620

brack1627

herring-pond1686

tide1791

black water1816

lave1825

briny1831

salt water1839

blue1861

swan's bath1865

puddle1869

ditch1922

oggin1945

c937 Battle of Brunanburh in Anglo-Saxon Chron. Siþþan eastan hider Engle and Sexe up becomon ofer brade brimu Brytene sohtan.

OE Beowulf (Gr.) 847 Wæs on blode brim weallende.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 177 Æquor, brym, sæ.

c1290 Land Cokaygne 156 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 160 Hi..lepith dune in-to the brimme, And doth ham sleilich for to swimme.

a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 125 In middes þe brig was ouer þe brim.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2172 A balȝ berȝ bi a bonke þe brymme [? sea or shore] by-syde.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. V1^v The bright sunne, what time his fierie teme Towards the westerne brim [perh. = edge, horizon] begins to draw.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

brimn.²

Brit.

/brɪm/, U.S.

/brɪm/

Forms: Middle English–1600s brimme, brymme, Middle English–1500s brym, Middle English, 1600s brime, 1500s bryme, 1600s brimm, Middle English– brim.

Etymology: Middle English brimme, brymme, of uncertain etymology: compare Old Norse barmr brim, German bräme feminine ‘margin, border, fringe’, Middle High German brem strong neuter ‘edging, border’.

I. originally. The border, margin, edge, or brink:

†1.

a. of the sea, or any piece of water: Coast, shore, bank, brink. (Now only as a transferred application of 4.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > [noun]

staithec893

cliffeOE

overeOE

wartha1000

strandc1000

brimc1275

brinka1300

rivagec1330

water bankc1384

cleevea1387

watersidea1387

clifta1398

rival?a1400

shorec1400

water breach1495

common shorea1568

verge1606

praia1682

riva1819

splash zone1933

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2232 His cnihtes..to þare sæ færden. þar laien bi þan brimme.

a1300 K. Horne 196 Ure schip bigan to swymme To þis londes brymme.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xii. 447 In the brymme of the deed see groweth most fayr apples.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Ll.ij The flud of Nyle shulde flowe ouer his brymmes.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 249 The bayche and brimmes of the sea.

1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 28 His willing waves yon bright blue bay Sends up, to kiss his decorated brim.

†b. In this sense formerly used without any defining addition. (Now only by ellipsis.)

ΚΠ

c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 8499 Þe cnihtes hine funde þar he sat bi brimme [c1275 Calig. stronden].

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 365 Watz no brymme þat abod vnbrosten bylyue.

c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 349 A boot he fond by the brym.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 339 In a richt fair place..Lawch by a brym [1489 Adv. bourne].

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iii. sig. Bb6 When as Calepine came to the brim..His heart with vengeaunce inwardly did swell.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights ii, in Poems 49 The citronshadows in the blue: By gardenporches on the brim, The costly doors flung open wide.

†2.

a. of other things. Obsolete, archaic or dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun]

brerdc1000

hemc1200

barmc1340

cantc1375

margina1382

boardc1400

borderc1400

brinkc1420

edgea1450

verge1459

brim1525

rind1530

margent1538

abuttal1545

marge1551

skirt1566

lip1592

skirt1598

limb1704

phylactery1715

rim1745

rand1829

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxiii. 57 On the brimme of the dykes..he caused to stryke of the heedes of all the prisoners.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxii. 173 Like to the common Belfloure, but..not so deepely cut about the brimmes or edges.

1591 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao ii. iv. 179 Let thy love hang at thy hearts bottome, not at the tongues brimme.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iii. sig. C7^v Vpon the brim of his brode plated shield.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 394 Escars that grow about the brims of vlcers.

1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cxxx The flowers..of a whitish colour washed about the brims with a little light carnation.

1716 London Gaz. No. 5470/4 The Brims of the Ears black.

1862 W. Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. II. 185 E vell vrom the brim Ov a cliff.

†b. An edging or border (distinct from the surface).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border

lista700

edge1502

borderc1540

verge1573

skirt1576

brim?1610

limb1644

edging1684

bordure1691

bordage1860

bordering1862

rimming1868

skirting1872

?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse iv. sig. G4^v A brim, Of sayling Pynes that edge yon Mountain in.

1732 Acc. Workhouses 56 A slate with broad brims.

†3. figurative. The ‘brink’ (of despair, the grave, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > approximation > edge, verge, or brink

brink?a1400

brim1549

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. Prol. sig. ++iiii^v Brought vnto the very brymme of desperacion.

1622 A. Court Constancie i. 48 The quarrels..haue brought him to the brimme of his graue.

1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 10 This cited place lyes upon the very brimme of a noted corruption.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. viii. 75 He..is at the margin and brim of that state of finall reprobation.

II. More generally: the edge or margin of an object, and related uses.

a. Now esp. The edge, margin, or ‘lip’ of a cup, bowl, basin, or anything of similar shape artificial or natural. (Formerly often plural) spec. brim of the pelvis or pelvic brim: the part of the pelvis that forms the boundary of the superior pelvic aperture and separates the false or greater pelvis above from the true or lesser pelvis below; also, the aperture itself. Also elliptical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > of an opening or cavity

edgea1450

brim1546

lip1726

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > brim of

brim of the pelvis1762

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. H Better spare at brym than at bottom.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Lii/1 Y^e Brim of a cup, labrum.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 95/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Vnder y^e brimme of hys scull.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. iv. 2 He made a molten Sea of ten cubites, from brim to brim.

a1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 260 A vessel or a bason notched at the brimms.

1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xvii. xl. 409 They will..see it..run over the Brims of the Glass like Bottled Beer.

1762 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery (ed. 4) I. 81 The brim of the Pelvis is wider from side to side than from the back to the fore-part.

1810 Encycl. Londinensis I. 646/2 From the brim of the pelvis upwards.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. xx. 341 On arriving at the brim of the Crater,..we were agreeably surprised.

1885 R. Barnes & F. Barnes Syst. Obstetr. Med. II. xiii. 627 The filling up of the brim, and even of a part of the pelvic cavity sometimes, by the breech.

1957 D. Sinclair Introd. Functional Anat. xxi. 275 This basin is very incomplete, and ends centrally in a fairly abrupt rim of bone called the pelvic brim.

b. in full to the brim, and the like. Often figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > taking up space [phrase] > full to capacity

to stick full ofc1300

full to the brim1609

to capacity1937

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles vii. 49 A Cup that's stur'd vnto the brim.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iv. 47 To make the comming houre oreflow with ioy, And pleasure drowne the brim.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 17 He will fill thy wishes to the brimme.

1782 H. More Belshazzar ii. 74 Fill me that massy goblet to the brim.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. vi. 24 Thy city heap'd with envy to the brim.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. vi. 135 Quickly fill the beaker to the brim!

a. The upper edge or surface of water. archaic or poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > surface of

bosomOE

rima1400

brima1552

water plane1719

the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > parts or elements > surface

brima1552

surface1609

a1552 Leland in Sat. Rev. 13 Dec. (1885) 802 [Bremes] ons frayed approach not in the bryme of the water that yere agayne.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. xiv. sig. S ij v Marke..where the brimme of the water now toucheth.

1611 Bible (King James) Josh. iii. 15 The feet of the Priestes..were dipped in the brimme of the water.

1687 A. Lovell tr. C. de Bergerac Comical Hist. i. 168 They are Fish that never rise to the brim of the Water.

1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xv. 338 Not lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim.

†b. The surface of the ground. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] > surface of

bosomOE

fielda1400

brim1572

surface1596

day1620

1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde ii. f. 11^v Neither is the place of the fyre under the brimme of the earth.

6. The projecting edge or marginal rim of a hat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > brim

brim1594

breward1611

leaf1769

1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Giij^v His bonnet on, Vnder whose brim the gaudie sunne would peepe.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 12 The broad Brim of a good Hat.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. sig. Hh5^v (heading) Upon ones Drinking water out of the Brims of his Hat.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 359 A high crown'd Hat without brims.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 101/1 They sometimes invert the hat, and wear it brim uppermost.

7. technical. ? The thickened marginal portion, or ‘sound-bow’, of a bell.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts

yokeOE

stirrup1341

cod1379

bell-string1464

frame1474

stock1474

ear1484

poop1507

bell-wheel1529

skirt1555

guarder1583

imp1595

tab1607

jennet1615

pluck1637

bell-rope1638

cagea1640

cannon1668

stilt1672

canon1688

crown1688

sound-bow1688

belfry1753

furniture1756

sounding bow1756

earlet1833

brima1849

busk-board1851

headstock1851

sally hole1851

slider1871

mushroom head1872

sally beam1872

pit1874

tolling-lever1874

sally-pin1879

sally-pulley1901

sally-wheel1901

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 411 In the middle of the floor stood an old rusty Iron Bell on its brims.]

a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 47 Brim and rim it gleams.

1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church i. 5 A bell should measure: in diameter at the mouth, fifteen brims; in height to the shoulder, twelve brims.

8. Nautical. (See quot.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > platform at top of mast > edge of

brim1769

top-rim1769

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Rim, or Brim, a name given to the circular edge of any of the tops.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.

Compounds

brim-charged adj. filled to the brim.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to the brim

brerd-fullc1000

bret-fullc1200

staff-fulla1400

chock-fullc1440

brimful1530

brink-full1553

top-full1553

brim-charged1582

bankfullc1600

crowned1603

full-brimmed1614

brimmed1624

teemful1673

brimming1697

stock-full1782

throat-fulla1800

jam-full1835

cram-full1837

stodge-full1847

chockc1850

top-filled1860

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 59 Anchises a goold boul massye becrowning, With wyne brym charged.

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brimn.³

Etymology: < brim v.¹

(See quot.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > copulation

brimming1530

brim1587

1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell iii. (Hogges) 278 To make them goe to brimme or take the boare, it shalbe good to giue them of barley.

1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 176 You shall say Boare goeth to his Brymme.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) Brim, a Term relating to Swine; a Sow is said to go to Brim when she goes to Boar.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

† brimn.⁴

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: brimstone n.

Etymology: Short for brimstone n. (compare sense 4 at that entry).

Obsolete exc. dialect.

A bad, vicious woman. Cf. brimstone n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

queanOE

whorec1175

malkinc1275

wenchelc1300

ribalda1350

strumpeta1350

wench1362

filtha1375

parnelc1390

sinner14..

callet1415

slut?c1425

tickle-tailc1430

harlot?a1475

mignote1489

kittock?a1500

mulea1513

trulla1516

trully?1515

danta1529

miswoman1528

stewed whore1532

Tib1533

unchaghe1534

flag1535

Katy1535

jillet1541

yaud1545

housewife1546

trinkletc1550

whippet1550

Canace1551

filthy1553

Jezebel1558

kittyc1560

loonc1560

laced mutton1563

nymph1563

limmer1566

tomboy1566

Marian1567

mort1567

cockatrice1568

franion1571

blowze1573

rannell1573

rig1575

Kita1577

poplet1577

light-skirts1578

pucelle1578

harlotry1584

light o' lovea1586

driggle-draggle1588

wagtail1592

tub-tail1595

flirt-gill1597

minx1598

hilding1599

short-heels1599

bona-roba1600

flirt1600

Hiren1600

light-heels1602

roba1602

baggage1603

cousin1604

fricatrice1607

rumbelow1611

amorosa1615

jaya1616

open-taila1618

succubus1622

snaphancea1625

flap1631

buttered bun1638

puffkin1639

vizard1652

fallen woman1659

tomrigg1662

cunt1663

quaedama1670

jilt1672

crack1677

grass-girl1691

sporting girl1694

sportswoman1705

mobbed hood1707

brim1736

trollop1742

trub1746

demi-rep1749

gillyflower1757

lady of easy virtue1766

mot1773

chicken1782

gammerstang1788

buer1807

scarlet woman1816

blowen1819

fie-fie1820

shickster?1834

streel1842

charver1846

trolly1854

bad girl1855

amateur1862

anonyma1862

demi-virgin1864

pickup1871

chippy1885

wish-wife1886

tart1887

tartleta1890

flossy1893

fly girl1893

demi-mondaine1894

floozy1899

slattern1899

scrub1900

demi-vierge1908

cake1909

coozie1912

muff1914

tarty1918

yes-girl1920

radge1923

bike1945

puta1948

messer1951

cooze1955

jamette1965

skeezer1986

slutbag1987

chickenhead1988

ho1988

1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Brim (q. a Contraction of Brimstone), a common Strumpet.

1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) I. iv. 116 Can mortal scoundrels thee [sc. Hera] perplex, And the great brim of brimstones vex?

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Brim, a cant term for a trull, Loth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

brimn.⁵

Brit.

/brɪm/, U.S.

/brɪm/

Etymology: Variant of bream n.

U.S. and Australian.

= bream n. spec. U.S. the long-eared sunfish ( Lepomis auritus); cf. bream n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Lepomis (sun-fish)

bream1634

roach1637

sunfish1685

round robin1709

yellowbelly1775

redbelly1791

brim1795

sun perch1804

pumpkin seed1815

sunny1835

bluegill1877

redbreast1877

tobacco-box1877

red-eared sunfish1889

shell-cracker1889

sun1896

redear1931

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > member of genus Abramis (bream)

breamc1405

breamet1462

Pomeranian bream1839

zope1880

brim1898

skimmer1971

1795 J. Scott U.S. Gazetteer H^v A great variety of fish, as rock, mullet,..brim, and sturgeon.

1887 Harper's Mag. July 270/1 If they could slip away..there would be a diminished number of ‘brim’ and ‘goggle-eye’ in the ditch.

1894 Outing 23 403/2 The brim, a small, red fish, which is excellent fried.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 52/2 The popular pronunciation is Brim, and the fishes are all different from the various fishes called Bream in the northern hemisphere.

1936 Amer. Speech 11 314/1 Brim, black perch.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 214 Popular fish-names peculiar to the Australian include: brim for bream.

1954 Sydney Morning Herald 24 May 8 Cod up to nine pound and brim up to seven.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

brimv.¹

Brit.

/brɪm/, U.S.

/brɪm/

Forms: Middle English bryme, brymmyn, Middle English–1600s brymme, 1500s breame, breme, 1600s brime, brimme, 1600s– brim, (1800s dialect breme).

Etymology: In 15th cent. brymme , in the 16th cent. and modern dialect also breme , corresponding to brym , breme adj.; either formed from the latter, or (though not found in Middle English) actually descended from Old English bremman to roar, rage, corresponding to Old High German breman , Middle High German bremen to rage, roar, Middle Dutch and Dutch bremen , bremmen , from an old Germanic root brem- , cognate with Latin fremĕre . In early modern Dutch bremen had also the sense ‘desire violently’, and Low German brummen (a derivative form) is said of the sow seeking the boar. Compare also brim v.²

1. intransitive. Of swine: To be ‘in heat’, rut, copulate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (intransitive)] > be in heat or copulate

brimc1420

boar1528

brumle1671

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1051 Nowe bores gladly brymmeth.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1070 The sonner wol thei [sows] brymme ayeine and brynge Forth pigges moo.

1483 Cath. Angl. 44 To Bryme, subare.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Berriondez de puerca When a sow is briming, subatio.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Brime, a terme used among hunters when the wilde Boare goeth to the female.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sow To make a Sow Brim or take Boar.

1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Brim, breme, 1. to desire the boar; 2. (as applied to the boar), to serve the sow.

2. transitive. Said of a boar.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (transitive)] > copulate with

boar1528

brim1552

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Brymme a sowe, as when a bore doth get pigges.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 127 The female Camell..is often times breamed of the Boare, and conceaueth.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 304.

1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 452 Every Boar to brim his Sow.

1863 [see sense 1].

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† brimbrimev.²

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: brim v.¹

Etymology: Apparently a variant of brim v.¹, with specific sense development.

Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To be fertile, develop fruit, to breed v. (sense 11c).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > be fertile or fruitful [verb (intransitive)]

brima1325

wanton1667

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 118 God..erðe brimen and beren dede.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1128 Men seið ðe treen..Waxen in time and brimen.

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brimv.³

Brit.

/brɪm/, U.S.

/brɪm/

Forms: Also 1600s brimme.

Etymology: < brim n.²

a. transitive. To fill (a goblet, etc.) to the brim. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to the brim

brim1611

brim-fill1615

sleek1863

1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. C^v Fetch me his heart, brimme me a bowle With his warme bloud.

1805 R. Southey Madoc i. ii. 12 The board was spread anew, Anew the horn was brimmed.

1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse v. i. 65 As I brimm'd the bowl, I thought on thee.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cv. 164 Fetch the wine, Arrange the board and brim the glass.

b. figurative and transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > specifically in immaterial sense

fillOE

fulfila1300

replete1482

replenishc1529

stuff1531

install1577

charge1581

saturate1737

brim1844

supercharge1846

implete1862

earwig1880

infill1880

1844 A. B. Welby Poems (1867) 70 Softly brimming my young eyes with tears.

1853 Bowring in Fraser's Mag. XLVIII. 351 All my heart was brimmed with bliss.

1878 R. W. Gilder Poet & Master 9 Not tears, but jollity..brim the strong man-child's eyes.

2. intransitive. To be or become brim-full. to brim over: to overflow with. (The participial adjective brimming adj. is found from Milton onward.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up space [verb (intransitive)] > be or become full > to the brim

brim1818

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up space [verb (intransitive)] > be or become full > to overflowing

overfloweOE

to run over1530

swim1548

burst1563

to set over1608

swellc1616

to brim over1858

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > be excessive [verb (intransitive)] > superabound > overflow

overfloweOE

overruna1450

to flow above the banks1495

to flow over1526

superabound1582

overswell1597

to flow past shore?1615

restagnate1653

to well over1843

to brim over1858

1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 100 Where I brim Round flowery islands.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 70 The bustle of the market..went on within or brimmed over into the streets.

1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xxvi. 381 The Gulf of Bothnia appears to have brimmed with ice.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxix. 322 He brimmed with deep feeling as he replied.

†3. transitive. To provide with a brim. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > provide with an edge

listc1330

urlec1330

borderc1400

embordera1533

edge1555

lip1607

inverge1611

marginate1611

brim1623

rim1709

margin1715

skirt1717

skirt1787

marge1852

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii To brim a thing, marginate.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

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n.²c1275

n.³1587

n.⁴1736

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v.¹c1420

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单词	brim
释义	† brimn.¹ Forms: Old English–1500s brim, Old English–Middle English brym, Middle English brymme. Etymology: Old English brim surf, (poetic) the sea = Old Norse brim surf, sea; probably < the stem brem- roar, rage: see brim v.¹ It became obsolete in Middle English; but was perhaps used by Spenser. Obsolete. An old poetical word for the sea; also, ‘flood’, water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] sea-floodc893 brimc937 streamc950 foamOE mereOE seaOE sea of (the) oceanc1300 brookc1400 float1477 strand1513 breec1540 burnc1540 broth1558 Thetisie1600 fishpond1604 brine1605 pond1612 Thetisc1620 brack1627 herring-pond1686 tide1791 black water1816 lave1825 briny1831 salt water1839 blue1861 swan's bath1865 puddle1869 ditch1922 oggin1945 c937 Battle of Brunanburh in Anglo-Saxon Chron. Siþþan eastan hider Engle and Sexe up becomon ofer brade brimu Brytene sohtan. OE Beowulf (Gr.) 847 Wæs on blode brim weallende. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 177 Æquor, brym, sæ. c1290 Land Cokaygne 156 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 160 Hi..lepith dune in-to the brimme, And doth ham sleilich for to swimme. a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 125 In middes þe brig was ouer þe brim. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2172 A balȝ berȝ bi a bonke þe brymme [? sea or shore] by-syde. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. V1^v The bright sunne, what time his fierie teme Towards the westerne brim [perh. = edge, horizon] begins to draw. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brimn.² Brit. /brɪm/, U.S. /brɪm/ Forms: Middle English–1600s brimme, brymme, Middle English–1500s brym, Middle English, 1600s brime, 1500s bryme, 1600s brimm, Middle English– brim. Etymology: Middle English brimme, brymme, of uncertain etymology: compare Old Norse barmr brim, German bräme feminine ‘margin, border, fringe’, Middle High German brem strong neuter ‘edging, border’. I. originally. The border, margin, edge, or brink: †1. a. of the sea, or any piece of water: Coast, shore, bank, brink. (Now only as a transferred application of 4.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > [noun] staithec893 cliffeOE overeOE wartha1000 strandc1000 brimc1275 brinka1300 rivagec1330 water bankc1384 cleevea1387 watersidea1387 clifta1398 rival?a1400 shorec1400 water breach1495 common shorea1568 verge1606 praia1682 riva1819 splash zone1933 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2232 His cnihtes..to þare sæ færden. þar laien bi þan brimme. a1300 K. Horne 196 Ure schip bigan to swymme To þis londes brymme. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xii. 447 In the brymme of the deed see groweth most fayr apples. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Ll.ij The flud of Nyle shulde flowe ouer his brymmes. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 249 The bayche and brimmes of the sea. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 28 His willing waves yon bright blue bay Sends up, to kiss his decorated brim. †b. In this sense formerly used without any defining addition. (Now only by ellipsis.) ΚΠ c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 8499 Þe cnihtes hine funde þar he sat bi brimme [c1275 Calig. stronden]. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 365 Watz no brymme þat abod vnbrosten bylyue. c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 349 A boot he fond by the brym. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 339 In a richt fair place..Lawch by a brym [1489 Adv. bourne]. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iii. sig. Bb6 When as Calepine came to the brim..His heart with vengeaunce inwardly did swell. View more context for this quotation 1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights ii, in Poems 49 The citronshadows in the blue: By gardenporches on the brim, The costly doors flung open wide. †2. a. of other things. Obsolete, archaic or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] brerdc1000 hemc1200 barmc1340 cantc1375 margina1382 boardc1400 borderc1400 brinkc1420 edgea1450 verge1459 brim1525 rind1530 margent1538 abuttal1545 marge1551 skirt1566 lip1592 skirt1598 limb1704 phylactery1715 rim1745 rand1829 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxiii. 57 On the brimme of the dykes..he caused to stryke of the heedes of all the prisoners. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxii. 173 Like to the common Belfloure, but..not so deepely cut about the brimmes or edges. 1591 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao ii. iv. 179 Let thy love hang at thy hearts bottome, not at the tongues brimme. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iii. sig. C7^v Vpon the brim of his brode plated shield. View more context for this quotation 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 394 Escars that grow about the brims of vlcers. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cxxx The flowers..of a whitish colour washed about the brims with a little light carnation. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5470/4 The Brims of the Ears black. 1862 W. Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. II. 185 E vell vrom the brim Ov a cliff. †b. An edging or border (distinct from the surface). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border lista700 edge1502 borderc1540 verge1573 skirt1576 brim?1610 limb1644 edging1684 bordure1691 bordage1860 bordering1862 rimming1868 skirting1872 ?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse iv. sig. G4^v A brim, Of sayling Pynes that edge yon Mountain in. 1732 Acc. Workhouses 56 A slate with broad brims. †3. figurative. The ‘brink’ (of despair, the grave, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > approximation > edge, verge, or brink brink?a1400 brim1549 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. Prol. sig. ++iiii^v Brought vnto the very brymme of desperacion. 1622 A. Court Constancie i. 48 The quarrels..haue brought him to the brimme of his graue. 1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 10 This cited place lyes upon the very brimme of a noted corruption. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. viii. 75 He..is at the margin and brim of that state of finall reprobation. II. More generally: the edge or margin of an object, and related uses. 4. a. Now esp. The edge, margin, or ‘lip’ of a cup, bowl, basin, or anything of similar shape artificial or natural. (Formerly often plural) spec. brim of the pelvis or pelvic brim: the part of the pelvis that forms the boundary of the superior pelvic aperture and separates the false or greater pelvis above from the true or lesser pelvis below; also, the aperture itself. Also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > of an opening or cavity edgea1450 brim1546 lip1726 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > brim of brim of the pelvis1762 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. H Better spare at brym than at bottom. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Lii/1 Y^e Brim of a cup, labrum. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 95/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Vnder y^e brimme of hys scull. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. iv. 2 He made a molten Sea of ten cubites, from brim to brim. View more context for this quotation a1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 260 A vessel or a bason notched at the brimms. 1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xvii. xl. 409 They will..see it..run over the Brims of the Glass like Bottled Beer. 1762 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery (ed. 4) I. 81 The brim of the Pelvis is wider from side to side than from the back to the fore-part. 1810 Encycl. Londinensis I. 646/2 From the brim of the pelvis upwards. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. xx. 341 On arriving at the brim of the Crater,..we were agreeably surprised. 1885 R. Barnes & F. Barnes Syst. Obstetr. Med. II. xiii. 627 The filling up of the brim, and even of a part of the pelvic cavity sometimes, by the breech. 1957 D. Sinclair Introd. Functional Anat. xxi. 275 This basin is very incomplete, and ends centrally in a fairly abrupt rim of bone called the pelvic brim. b. in full to the brim, and the like. Often figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > taking up space [phrase] > full to capacity to stick full ofc1300 full to the brim1609 to capacity1937 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles vii. 49 A Cup that's stur'd vnto the brim. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iv. 47 To make the comming houre oreflow with ioy, And pleasure drowne the brim. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 17 He will fill thy wishes to the brimme. View more context for this quotation 1782 H. More Belshazzar ii. 74 Fill me that massy goblet to the brim. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. vi. 24 Thy city heap'd with envy to the brim. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. vi. 135 Quickly fill the beaker to the brim! 5. a. The upper edge or surface of water. archaic or poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > surface of bosomOE rima1400 brima1552 water plane1719 the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > parts or elements > surface brima1552 surface1609 a1552 Leland in Sat. Rev. 13 Dec. (1885) 802 [Bremes] ons frayed approach not in the bryme of the water that yere agayne. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. xiv. sig. S ij v Marke..where the brimme of the water now toucheth. 1611 Bible (King James) Josh. iii. 15 The feet of the Priestes..were dipped in the brimme of the water. View more context for this quotation 1687 A. Lovell tr. C. de Bergerac Comical Hist. i. 168 They are Fish that never rise to the brim of the Water. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xv. 338 Not lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim. †b. The surface of the ground. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] > surface of bosomOE fielda1400 brim1572 surface1596 day1620 1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde ii. f. 11^v Neither is the place of the fyre under the brimme of the earth. 6. The projecting edge or marginal rim of a hat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > brim brim1594 breward1611 leaf1769 1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Giij^v His bonnet on, Vnder whose brim the gaudie sunne would peepe. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 12 The broad Brim of a good Hat. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. sig. Hh5^v (heading) Upon ones Drinking water out of the Brims of his Hat. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 359 A high crown'd Hat without brims. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 101/1 They sometimes invert the hat, and wear it brim uppermost. 7. technical. ? The thickened marginal portion, or ‘sound-bow’, of a bell. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts yokeOE stirrup1341 cod1379 bell-string1464 frame1474 stock1474 ear1484 poop1507 bell-wheel1529 skirt1555 guarder1583 imp1595 tab1607 jennet1615 pluck1637 bell-rope1638 cagea1640 cannon1668 stilt1672 canon1688 crown1688 sound-bow1688 belfry1753 furniture1756 sounding bow1756 earlet1833 brima1849 busk-board1851 headstock1851 sally hole1851 slider1871 mushroom head1872 sally beam1872 pit1874 tolling-lever1874 sally-pin1879 sally-pulley1901 sally-wheel1901 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 411 In the middle of the floor stood an old rusty Iron Bell on its brims.] a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 47 Brim and rim it gleams. 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church i. 5 A bell should measure: in diameter at the mouth, fifteen brims; in height to the shoulder, twelve brims. 8. Nautical. (See quot.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > platform at top of mast > edge of brim1769 top-rim1769 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Rim, or Brim, a name given to the circular edge of any of the tops. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Compounds brim-charged adj. filled to the brim. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to the brim brerd-fullc1000 bret-fullc1200 staff-fulla1400 chock-fullc1440 brimful1530 brink-full1553 top-full1553 brim-charged1582 bankfullc1600 crowned1603 full-brimmed1614 brimmed1624 teemful1673 brimming1697 stock-full1782 throat-fulla1800 jam-full1835 cram-full1837 stodge-full1847 chockc1850 top-filled1860 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 59 Anchises a goold boul massye becrowning, With wyne brym charged. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brimn.³ Etymology: < brim v.¹ (See quot.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > copulation brimming1530 brim1587 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell iii. (Hogges) 278 To make them goe to brimme or take the boare, it shalbe good to giue them of barley. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 176 You shall say Boare goeth to his Brymme. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) Brim, a Term relating to Swine; a Sow is said to go to Brim when she goes to Boar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). † brimn.⁴ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: brimstone n. Etymology: Short for brimstone n. (compare sense 4 at that entry). Obsolete exc. dialect. A bad, vicious woman. Cf. brimstone n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Brim (q. a Contraction of Brimstone), a common Strumpet. 1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) I. iv. 116 Can mortal scoundrels thee [sc. Hera] perplex, And the great brim of brimstones vex? 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Brim, a cant term for a trull, Loth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). brimn.⁵ Brit. /brɪm/, U.S. /brɪm/ Etymology: Variant of bream n. U.S. and Australian. = bream n. spec. U.S. the long-eared sunfish ( Lepomis auritus); cf. bream n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Lepomis (sun-fish) bream1634 roach1637 sunfish1685 round robin1709 yellowbelly1775 redbelly1791 brim1795 sun perch1804 pumpkin seed1815 sunny1835 bluegill1877 redbreast1877 tobacco-box1877 red-eared sunfish1889 shell-cracker1889 sun1896 redear1931 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > member of genus Abramis (bream) breamc1405 breamet1462 Pomeranian bream1839 zope1880 brim1898 skimmer1971 1795 J. Scott U.S. Gazetteer H^v A great variety of fish, as rock, mullet,..brim, and sturgeon. 1887 Harper's Mag. July 270/1 If they could slip away..there would be a diminished number of ‘brim’ and ‘goggle-eye’ in the ditch. 1894 Outing 23 403/2 The brim, a small, red fish, which is excellent fried. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 52/2 The popular pronunciation is Brim, and the fishes are all different from the various fishes called Bream in the northern hemisphere. 1936 Amer. Speech 11 314/1 Brim, black perch. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 214 Popular fish-names peculiar to the Australian include: brim for bream. 1954 Sydney Morning Herald 24 May 8 Cod up to nine pound and brim up to seven. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brimv.¹ Brit. /brɪm/, U.S. /brɪm/ Forms: Middle English bryme, brymmyn, Middle English–1600s brymme, 1500s breame, breme, 1600s brime, brimme, 1600s– brim, (1800s dialect breme). Etymology: In 15th cent. brymme , in the 16th cent. and modern dialect also breme , corresponding to brym , breme adj.; either formed from the latter, or (though not found in Middle English) actually descended from Old English bremman to roar, rage, corresponding to Old High German breman , Middle High German bremen to rage, roar, Middle Dutch and Dutch bremen , bremmen , from an old Germanic root brem- , cognate with Latin fremĕre . In early modern Dutch bremen had also the sense ‘desire violently’, and Low German brummen (a derivative form) is said of the sow seeking the boar. Compare also brim v.² 1. intransitive. Of swine: To be ‘in heat’, rut, copulate. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (intransitive)] > be in heat or copulate brimc1420 boar1528 brumle1671 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1051 Nowe bores gladly brymmeth. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1070 The sonner wol thei [sows] brymme ayeine and brynge Forth pigges moo. 1483 Cath. Angl. 44 To Bryme, subare. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Berriondez de puerca When a sow is briming, subatio. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Brime, a terme used among hunters when the wilde Boare goeth to the female. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sow To make a Sow Brim or take Boar. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Brim, breme, 1. to desire the boar; 2. (as applied to the boar), to serve the sow. 2. transitive. Said of a boar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (transitive)] > copulate with boar1528 brim1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Brymme a sowe, as when a bore doth get pigges. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 127 The female Camell..is often times breamed of the Boare, and conceaueth. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 304. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 452 Every Boar to brim his Sow. 1863 [see sense 1]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † brimbrimev.² Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: brim v.¹ Etymology: Apparently a variant of brim v.¹, with specific sense development. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To be fertile, develop fruit, to breed v. (sense 11c). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > be fertile or fruitful [verb (intransitive)] brima1325 wanton1667 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 118 God..erðe brimen and beren dede. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1128 Men seið ðe treen..Waxen in time and brimen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). brimv.³ Brit. /brɪm/, U.S. /brɪm/ Forms: Also 1600s brimme. Etymology: < brim n.² 1. a. transitive. To fill (a goblet, etc.) to the brim. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to the brim brim1611 brim-fill1615 sleek1863 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. C^v Fetch me his heart, brimme me a bowle With his warme bloud. 1805 R. Southey Madoc i. ii. 12 The board was spread anew, Anew the horn was brimmed. 1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse v. i. 65 As I brimm'd the bowl, I thought on thee. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cv. 164 Fetch the wine, Arrange the board and brim the glass. View more context for this quotation b. figurative and transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > specifically in immaterial sense fillOE fulfila1300 replete1482 replenishc1529 stuff1531 install1577 charge1581 saturate1737 brim1844 supercharge1846 implete1862 earwig1880 infill1880 1844 A. B. Welby Poems (1867) 70 Softly brimming my young eyes with tears. 1853 Bowring in Fraser's Mag. XLVIII. 351 All my heart was brimmed with bliss. 1878 R. W. Gilder Poet & Master 9 Not tears, but jollity..brim the strong man-child's eyes. 2. intransitive. To be or become brim-full. to brim over: to overflow with. (The participial adjective brimming adj. is found from Milton onward.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up space [verb (intransitive)] > be or become full > to the brim brim1818 the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up space [verb (intransitive)] > be or become full > to overflowing overfloweOE to run over1530 swim1548 burst1563 to set over1608 swellc1616 to brim over1858 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > be excessive [verb (intransitive)] > superabound > overflow overfloweOE overruna1450 to flow above the banks1495 to flow over1526 superabound1582 overswell1597 to flow past shore?1615 restagnate1653 to well over1843 to brim over1858 1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 100 Where I brim Round flowery islands. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 70 The bustle of the market..went on within or brimmed over into the streets. 1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xxvi. 381 The Gulf of Bothnia appears to have brimmed with ice. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxix. 322 He brimmed with deep feeling as he replied. †3. transitive. To provide with a brim. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > provide with an edge listc1330 urlec1330 borderc1400 embordera1533 edge1555 lip1607 inverge1611 marginate1611 brim1623 rim1709 margin1715 skirt1717 skirt1787 marge1852 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii To brim a thing, marginate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹c937n.²c1275n.³1587n.⁴1736n.⁵1795v.¹c1420v.²a1325v.³1611
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