[f. BRIM v.3 + -ING2.]

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  1.  That rises to the brim of its vessel, basin or bed; that fills to overflowing.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., IV. 336. They … in the rinde, Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream.

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1857.  Emerson, Poems, 42. The brimming brook invites a leap.

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1864.  Tennyson, Brook, 64. And out again I curve and flow, To join the brimming river.

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  fig.  1864.  Spectator, 424. All true poetry really requires a brimming vitality of feeling and impression.

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  2.  Of a vessel: Brim-full, full to overflowing.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Past., III. 43. To store the Dairy, with a brimming Pail.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., XX. 317. Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crowned.

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1845.  Disraeli, Sybil (1863), 48. To fill the brimming cup.

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  3.  advb.

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1848.  W. E. Aytoun, Danube & Eux., 10. I am brimming full and red.

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