brim

Definition

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

Etymology

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”); from Old English brim (“sea, surf, or the edge of the sea or a body of water”), from Proto-Germanic *brimą (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to hum, make a noise”). The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”) * Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”) * German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”) * Swedish bräm (“border, edge”) * Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”)

Example Sentences

• "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: […]"
• "And all the vvhile, that ſame diſcourteous Knight, / Stood on the further bancke beholding him, / At vvhoſe calamity, for more deſpight / He laught, and mockt to ſee him like to ſvvim. / But vvhen as Calepine came to the brim [of the river], / And ſavv his carriage paſt that perill vvell, / His heart vvith vengeaunce invvardly did ſvvell, / And forth at laſt did breake in ſpeaches ſharpe and fell."