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Overbrim

Overbrim \O`ver*brim"\, v. i. To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow. [R.]

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overbrim

vb. To flow over the brim; to overflow.

Usage examples of "overbrim".

It dragged down their clothing, filled their boots, their eyes, their mouths and ears, and overbrimmed the cups of their skulls.

When Viviana's frustration overbrimmed its well, she would rail at the trees and kick them, or tear off their brittle boughs and use them to beat the boles.

The captain had returned from the elven island overbrimming with stories of elven wonders and glowing like a moon in the reflected glory of Queen Amlaruil.

Hrolf was especially jolly, full to overbrimming with boisterous humor and badly sung ballads.

Their house, a kind of southwestern religious Smithsonian Institution, was crammed full of bultos and retablos, carved saints and painted saints, bleeding saints and saints wearing little cloth capes on which roses and moons and stars were embroidered, and saints carrying silk shoulder pouches, and saints with angels driving their plows through the earth behind them, and saints with gourds full of sacred water and baskets overbrimming with sacred bread--they had santos in their household like most of Milagro's dogs had fleas!

One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt.

The fog had by this time saturated the trees, and this was the first dropping of water from the overbrimming leaves.

Like water that overbrims a vessel and must seek a place to flow, the Wit went forth from me, silent yet reaching.