Of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.
Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.
Keen, sharp, alert.
From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“I murmur; I roa...
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