Obs. rare. Also brimfir, brendfier. [Only in Gen. & Ex.: app. f. brenn-en to burn + FIRE: but see BRIMSTONE.] Fierce burning fire: applied as a name for brimstone.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 754. For mannes sinne ðus it is went, brent wið brimfir, sunken and shent. Ibid., 1110. Sone so loth ut of sodome cam brend-fier-rein de burȝe bi-nam. Ibid., 1164. To-ward sodome he saȝ ðe roke And ðe brinfires stinken smoke.
