brimming

Verb (1)

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

1. (transitive) 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.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
2. (figuratively, transitive) To fill (something) fully.
3. (also, figuratively, intransitive) To be full until almost overflowing.
   • The room brimmed with people.

   Synonyms:

   teem, bulge

Verb (2)

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

1. (archaic, transitive) Of 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...1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.] The Generation of Liuing Creatures upon the Land.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The...
2. (archaic, intransitive) Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.

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