Usually means: Edge of a hat, cup.
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  1. brim: Merriam-Webster
  2. brim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brim: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brim: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brim, brim: Wordnik
  7. brim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Brim, brim: Wiktionary
  9. brim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brim: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brim, brim: Dictionary.com
  13. brim: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brim (hat), Brim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brim: Rhymezone
  19. brim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. brim: FreeDictionary.org
  22. brim: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. brim: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. brim: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. brim: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. brim: Legal dictionary

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Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. brim: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BRIM: Acronym Finder
  2. brim: Idioms

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  1. brim, brim, brim: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Brim: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See briming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
noun:  The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
noun:  A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
noun:  (archaic or poetic) The upper edge or surface of water.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  The surface of the ground.
noun:  (figurative) A brink or edge.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To fill (a container) to the brim (noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.
verb:  (figurative) To fill (something) fully.
verb:  (intransitive, also figurative) To be full until almost overflowing.
noun:  (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
noun:  (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
verb:  (transitive) Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.
noun:  (archaic) The period when a sow (“female pig”) is ready to mate; a heat, an oestrus, a rut; also, an act of a boar (“male pig”) and sow mating.
adjective:  (obsolete except Northern England, Scotland or poetic) Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”)
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete except dialectal) An irascible, violent woman.
noun:  A surname.

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