Also 7 brimme. [f. BRIM sb.2]
1. trans. To fill (a goblet, etc.) to the brim. Also absol.
1611. Heywood, Gold. Age, I. i. Wks. 1874, III. 14. Fetch me his heart, brimme me a bowle With his warme bloud.
1805. Southey, Madoc in W., II. The board was spread anew, Anew the horn was brimmd.
1813. Coleridge, Remorse, V. i. 108. As I brimmed the bowl, I thought on thee.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., cvi. 16. Fetch the wine, Arrange the board and brim the glass.
b. fig. and transf.
1844. A. B. Welby, Poems (1867), 70. Softly brimming my young eyes with tears.
1853. Bowring, in Frasers Mag., XLVIII. 351. All my heart was brimmed with bliss.
1878. Gilder, Poet & Master, 9. Not tears, but jollity brim the strong man-childs eyes.
2. intr. To be or become brim-full. To brim over: to overflow with. (The ppl. adj. BRIMMING is found from Milton onward.)
1818. Keats, Endym., II. 997. Where I brim Round flowery islands.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., II. 70. The bustle of the market went on within or brimmed over into the streets.
1873. Geikie, Gt. Ice Age, xxvi. 353. The Gulf of Bothnia appears to have brimmed with ice.
1874. T. Hardy, Madding Crowd, I. xxix. 322. He brimmed with deep feeling as he replied.
† 3. trans. To provide with a brim. Obs.
1623. Cockeram, II. To brim a thing, marginate.