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dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything. Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim I would remove it with an anxious pity. Coleridge.

Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow. "Her brimful eyes." Dryden.

Having no brim; as, brimless caps.

Having a brim; -- usually in composition. "Broad-brimmed hat." Spectator.

A brimful bowl; a bumper.

Full to the brim; overflowing.

Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous. B. Jonson.

Having a broad brim. A broad-brimmed flat silver plate. Tatler.

A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends.

To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow. [R.]

tort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

sting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.]

Famous; renowned; well known. Wright. [Written also brim and brimme.]

Brimful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to become a priest.

One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys;