brimmed

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brim

(brĭm)

1. The uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.

2. A projecting rim or edge, especially around the bottom of a hat.

3. Full capacity: "No sooner had the fighting started than the hotel filled to the brim with a most extraordinary collection of people" (George Orwell).

v. brimmed, brim·ming, brims

v.intr.

1. To be full to the brim, often to overflowing: The cup is brimming with chowder.

2. To be abundantly filled or supplied: a monument brimming with tourists; workers brimming with pride.

v.tr.

To fill to the brim.

[Middle English brimme.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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The audience would have gone over to Mr Pancks, as one man, woman, and child, but for the long, grey, silken locks, and the broad- brimmed hat.

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The wine-cup brimmed again and again, food was piled up in front of the honoured guest, and the attendant who waited was Death.

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Forthwith, slowly going from one officer to the other, he brimmed the harpoon sockets with the fiery waters from the pewter.

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