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brim

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

brim / brim/ • n. the projecting edge around the bottom of a hat: a soft hat with a turned-up brim. ∎ the upper edge or lip of a cup, bowl, or other container: tankards frothing to the brim. • v. (brimmed , brim·ming ) [often as adj.] (brimming) fill or be full to the point of overflowing: [intr.] a brimming cup [tr.] seawater brimmed the riverbanks. ∎ fill something so completely as almost to spill out of it: large tears brimmed in her eyes. ∎ fig. be possessed by or full of feelings or thoughts: he is brimming with ideas. DERIVATIVES: brimmed adj. [in comb.] : a wide-brimmed hat. brim·less adj.

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brim

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

brim †border, margin, brink XIII; edge of a cup, etc.; projecting rim of a hat XVI. of obscure history, but corr. in sense to MHG. brem (G. brä(h)me), ON. barmr edge.

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brim

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

brim •bedim, brim, crim, dim, glim, grim, Grimm, gym, him, hymn, Jim, Kim, limb, limn, nim, prim, quim, rim, scrim, shim, Sim, skim, slim, swim, Tim, trim, vim, whim •poem • goyim • cherubim • Hasidim •seraphim, teraphim •Elohim • Sikkim • Joachim • prelim •forelimb • Muslim • Blenheim •paynim • minim • pseudonym •homonym • anonym • synonym •eponym • acronym • antonym •metonym • Antrim • megrim •Leitrim • pilgrim • Purim • interim •passim • maxim • kibbutzim •Midrashim • literatim •seriatim, verbatim •victim •system • ecosystem • subsystem •item • Ashkenazim

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