brim

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 braine dovvne to his breſt.

As the bright ſunne, vvhat time his fierie teme / Tovvards the vveſterne brim begins to dravv, / Gins to abate the brightneſſe of his beme, / And feruour of his flames ſomevvhat adavv: […]

Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.

Better spare at brim than at bottom, say I.

Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.

And therefore vvould he put his bonnet on, / Vnder vvhoſe brim the gaudie ſunne vvould peepe, […]

Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

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, […]

The steed along the drawbridge flies, / Just as it trembled on the rise; / Not lighter does the swallow skim / Along the smooth lake's level brim.

To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.

Arrange the board and brim the glass.

Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”

To fill (something) fully.

To be full until almost overflowing.

The room brimmed with people.

The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine.

The sea; ocean; water; flood.