brims

Noun

brim (plural brims)

1. 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...1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 34, page 46
   1. The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
      • The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
   2. A projecting rim.
   3. (especially) That of a hat.
      • He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.
   4. (archaic, poetic) The upper edge or surface of water.
      • 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, […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 3:15–16, column 1
   5. (obsolete) The surface of the ground.
      • [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...1574, Iohn Iones, “The Second Booke of Bathes Ayde”, in A Briefe, Excellent, and Profitable Discourse, of the Naturall Beginning of All Growing and Liuing Things, Heate, Generation, Effects of the...

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