brim

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The rim or uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.
2. n. A projecting rim or edge: the brim of a hat.
3. n. A border or an edge. See Synonyms at border.
4. n. Full capacity: "No sooner had the fighting started than the hotel filled to the brim with a most extraordinary collection of people” ( George Orwell).
5. v. To be full to the brim, often to overflowing: The cup is brimming with chowder.
6. v. To be abundantly filled or supplied: a monument brimming with tourists; workers brimming with pride.
7. v. To fill to the brim.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The sea; ocean; water; flood.
2. n. A brink, edge, or margin; more especially, the line of junction between a body of water and its bank, or between the bank and the adjoining level: as, to descend to the brim of a lake; the river is full to the brim.
3. n. The upper edge of anything hollow: as, the brim of a cup.
4. n. A projecting edge, border, or rim round anything hollow: as, the brim of a hat.
5. To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
6. To be full to the brim: as, a brimming glass.
7. To coast along near; skirt.
8. To brim over, to run over the brim; overflow: often used in a figurative sense.
9. To be in heat, as a boar or sow.
10. Famous; celebrated; well known; notorious.
11. Violent; fierce; terrible; sharp.
12. Strong; powerful.
13. Sharp; acute.
14. n. A fish of the family Centrarchidæ, the long-eared sunfish, Lepomis auritus.
15. n. The forehead.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete The sea; ocean; water; flood.
2. n. an edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water)
3. n. the topmost rim or lip of a container
4. n. a projecting rim, especially of a hat
5. v. to be full to overflowing
6. v. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
7. adj. obsolete fierce; sharp; cold

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
2. n. The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
3. n. The rim of a hat.
4. v. To be full to the brim.
5. v. To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
6. adj. obsolete Fierce; sharp; cold. See breme.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be completely full
2. n. the top edge of a vessel or other container
3. v. fill as much as possible
4. n. a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat