brim

Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.

A projecting rim.

That of a hat.

(US, Australia) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).

(UK, slang) An irascible, violent woman.

(figurative, no longer used) A brink or edge.

(literary, no longer used) The upper edge or surface of water.

(no longer used) The surface of the ground.

(no longer used) The sea; ocean; water; flood.

(no longer used) 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.

To fill (a container) to the brim, top, or upper edge.

To be full until almost overflowing.

(figurative) To fill (something) fully.

(no longer used) Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.

(no longer used) Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.

(Scotland, literary) Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”).