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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The rim, border, or upper sdge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything. Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim I would remove it with an anxious pity. Coleridge.

2. The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border. The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water. Josh. iii. 15.

3. The rim of a hat. Wordsworth.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To be full to the brim. "The brimming stream." Milton. To brim over (literally or figuratively), to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top. Arrange the board and brim the glass. Tennyson.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme. [Obs.]

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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