denotes the outmost verge or edge, especially of round things. The brims of vessels are made to project a little over, to hinder liquors, in pouring out, from running down the side of the vessel. The brimming of vessels was contrived by the ancient potters, in imitation of the supercilium or drip of the cornices of columns; it is done by turning over some of the double matter when the work is on the wheel.

country affairs. A sow is said to brim, or to go to brim, when she is ready to take the boar.