Lip of vessel

Usage examples of brim.

After a startled moment, the banksman took it, gave a hasty shake, then touched the brim of his hat.

Without being asked, the Aqualish bartender slid a brimming glass his way.

His head, disproportionately large, was surmounted by a black billycock hat with a very flat brim.

One toast with me your glasses fill, Aye, fill them level with the brim, De mortuis, nisi bonum, nil!

There was a father, the woman some years younger, an old granny, six children ranging from boys old enough to wear brimmed hats to bonneted babies.

They ran laughing, Janine clutching her wide brimmed straw hat, and Roland trying to shield her from the storm of confetti that swirled around them.

He wore a sun-bleached and battered brimmed hat, a gray work shirt and blue jeans tucked into scarred work boots that had never seen an honest day of rest.

They watched with amusement the elaborate precautions which Jan Cheroot took to get the last drop into his brimming mug.

Lilies were rocking on the sluggish reaches of the streams, and where the current quickened, tall wheels were lifting water for the fields in circles of brimming and spilling pockets.

My fondness for gossip and laughter, my brimming appetites, my tendency to sartorial chaos and my trick of farting at will made me one of the most popular men at Whitehall.

I imagine this Aquarius as an old, stooped man, his spine warped by the weight of a wooden yoke from which hang a pair of brimming pails.

For the first time in months, a portion of her burden lifted and the relief she felt revealed itself with tears, hot brimming tears that burned her eyelids and scalded paths down her cheeks.

Jimmy glanced over and was startled to see her eyes brimming with tears.

Brim and Broud stepped to either side of the shaggy head and gripped a horn, leaving one hand free to hold their spears.

In its normal form the burgonet was a large roomy cap with a brim shading the eyes, cheek-pieces or flaps, a comb, and a guard for the back of the neck.