Brim

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “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: […]”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim A projecting rim.
4. isim That of a hat.

   “He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.”

5. isim 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, […]”

6. isim The surface of the ground.
7. isim A brink or edge.

   “[T]his cited place lyes upon the very brimme of a noted corruption, vvhich they had, that quote this paſſage, ventur'd to let us read, all men vvould have readily ſeen vvhat grain the teſtimony had bin of, […]”

8. fiil 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.”

9. fiil To fill (something) fully.
10. fiil To be full until almost overflowing.

    “The room brimmed with people.”

11. isim The sea; ocean; water; flood.
12. isim Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).

    “Sometimes her daddy would take her fishing for catfish or brim (bream) out on the lake in his john boat.”

13. fiil Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.

    “Nay, a Country Farmer vvon't ſuffer any Bull to leap a young Covv; nor every Horſe his Mare, nor every Boar to brim his Sovv; tho a Bullock is deſign'd for the Plough, a Horſe for the Cart, and a Svvine for the Kitchen. See novv hovv perverſe the Judgments of Mankind are.”

14. fiil Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.
15. isim The period when a sow (“female pig”) is ready to mate; a heat, an oestrus, a rut; also, an act of a boar (“male pig”) and sow mating.

    “You ſhall ſay […] Boare […] goeth to his […] Brymme.”

16. sıfat Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”).
17. isim An irascible, violent woman.

    “Can mortal ſcoundrels thee perplex, / And the great brim of brimſtones vex?”

18. özel isim A surname.
19. özel isim A locality in the Shire of Yarriambiack, north western Victoria, Australia.