LekhoriLekhoriOriginally, 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.
The sea; ocean; water; flood.
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.
The 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.
An irascible, violent woman.
Can mortal ſcoundrels thee perplex, / And the great brim of brimſtones vex?
To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1, sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.
Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”).
A surname.
A locality in the Shire of Yarriambiack, north western Victoria, Australia.
The noun is derived from Middle English brem, brim, brimme (“bank, edge, or margin of a lake or river; shore of a sea; brink; rim”); further etymology uncertain, probably related to Middle High German...
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Arrange the board and brim the glass.
To fill (something) fully.
Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with; 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.