Brimname

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  A surname.

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  A locality in the Shire of Yarriambiack, north western Victoria, Australia.

brimnoun詞源 1/bɹɪm/

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

  • The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
  • Better spare at brim than at bottom, say I.
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  Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

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

  • 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, […]
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  archaicOriginally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

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

  • [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, […]
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  obsoleteOriginally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

  • 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, […]

brimverb詞源 1/bɹɪm/

• 1

  To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.

  • Arrange the board and brim the glass.
  • Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”
• 2

  To fill (something) fully.

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  To be full until almost overflowing.

  • The room brimmed with people.
  • The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine.

brimnoun詞源 2/bɹɪm/

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  obsoleteThe sea; ocean; water; flood.

brimnoun詞源 3/bɹɪm/

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  Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).

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

brimverb詞源 4/bɹɪm/

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  archaicOf a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.

  • Svvine alone of all creatures vvhen they be brimming, froth and fome at the mouth. And as for the Bore, if he heare the grunting of a Sovv that ſeekes to be brimmed, unleſſe he may come to her, vvill forſake his meat, untill he be leane and poore: and ſhe againe vvill be ſo farre enraged, that ſhe vvill be readie to run upon a man and all to teare him, eſpecially if his cloths be vvhite.
  • Nay, a Country Farmer vvon't ſuffer any Bull to leap a young Covv; nor every Horſe his Mare, nor every Boar to brim his Sovv; tho a Bullock is deſign'd for the Plough, a Horſe for the Cart, and a Svvine for the Kitchen. See novv hovv perverſe the Judgments of Mankind are.
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  archaicOf a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.

brimnoun詞源 4/bɹɪm/

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  archaicThe 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.

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

brimadj詞源 5/bɹɪm/

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  archaicSynonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”).

brimnoun詞源 6/bɹɪm/

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  archaicslangAn irascible, violent woman.

  • 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.