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Is brim a Scrabble word?

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Definition

noun (English)

1. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.Examples: "He turned the back of his brim up stylishly."; "And therefore vvould he put his bonnet on, / Vnder vvhoſe brim the gaudie ſunne vvould peepe, […]"; "[…] Kneeling upon the Ground, he took up vvith his Hat, vvhich by Cocking the Brims he turn'd into a kind of Cup, ſuch a proportion of VVater that he quench'd his Thirſt vvith it; […]"Synonyms: bill, hatbrimespecially

2. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.Examples: "And as they that bare the Arke were come vnto Jordan, and the feet of the prieſt that bare the Arke, were dipped in the brimme of the water, (for Jordan ouerfloweth all his banks at the time of harueſt) That the waters which came downe from aboue, ſtood and roſe vp vpon an heape very farre, […]"; "The steed along the drawbridge flies, / Just as it trembled on the rise; / Not lighter does the swallow skim / Along the smooth lake's level brim."archaicpoetic

3. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.Examples: "[T]he place, of that fyre vnder the earthe, […] is not nye the centre of the earth, bicauſe then, it would eaſily bée corrupted, for the earth, is ther moſt pure and therfore, the vertue doth more floriſh, ſo that it is moſt colde, neither is the place of the fyre, vnder the brimme of the Earth, for if it were ther conteyned, it would burne vp the plants, and whatſoeuer is in the face of the ſame, and therfore be concludeth, that it is in the middle hollowneſſes, betwene theſe two extremes, that is, béetwene the centre, ⁊ the face of the earthe, […]"obsolete

4. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.Examples: "For except thou haue borne the croſſe of aduerſitie and temptacion, and haſte felte thy ſelfe brought vnto the very brymme of desperacion, yea ⁊ vnto hells gates, thou canſt neuer medle with the ſentence of predeſtinacion without thine owne harme, and without ſecret wrathe and grudging inwardly agaynſt God, for otherwiſe it ſhal not be poſſible for the [thee] to thinke that God is righteous and iuſte."; "[T]his cited place lyes upon the very brimme of a noted corruption, vvhich they had, that quote this paſſage, ventur'd to let us read, all men vvould have readily ſeen vvhat grain the teſtimony had bin of, […]"; "[H]e that lived long in a violent and habituall courſe of ſinne is at the margin and brim of that ſtate of finall reprobation, and ſome men are in it before they be avvare, and to ſome GOD reckons their dayes ſvvifter, and their periods ſhorter."figurativelyobsolete

verb (English)

1. (transitive)Examples: "Arrange the board and brim the glass."; "Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”"transitive

2. (transitive)figurativelytransitive

3. (intransitive, also figurative) To be full until almost overflowing.Examples: "The room brimmed with people."; "The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine."; "It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant."Synonyms: teem, bulgealsofigurativelyintransitive

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.obsolete

noun (English)

1. (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).Examples: "Sometimes her daddy would take her fishing for catfish or brim (bream) out on the lake in his john boat."Synonyms: breamAustraliaUS

verb (English)

1. (transitive) Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.Examples: "Svvine alone of all creatures vvhen they be brimming, froth and fome at the mouth. And as for the Bore, if he heare the grunting of a Sovv that ſeekes to be brimmed, unleſſe he may come to her, vvill forſake his meat, untill he be leane and poore: and ſhe againe vvill be ſo farre enraged, that ſhe vvill be readie to run upon a man and all to teare him, eſpecially if his cloths be vvhite."; "Nay, a Country Farmer vvon't ſuffer any Bull to leap a young Covv; nor every Horſe his Mare, nor every Boar to brim his Sovv; tho a Bullock is deſign'd for the Plough, a Horſe for the Cart, and a Svvine for the Kitchen. See novv hovv perverſe the Judgments of Mankind are."archaictransitive

2. (intransitive) Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.archaicintransitive

noun (English)

1. (archaic) 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.Examples: "You ſhall ſay […] Boare […] goeth to his […] Brymme."archaic

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "brim"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "brim"?

Scrabble
8 points
B3
R1
I1
M3
Words With Friends
10 points
B4
R1
I1
M4

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