upbrim

English

Verb

upbrim (third-person singular simple present upbrims, present participle upbrimming, simple past and past participle upbrimmed)

1. To brim upwards
   • 1898, Thomas Hardy, “Thoughts of Ph——a”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 152:

     […] , whom I knew when her dreams
     were upbrimming with light,
     And with laughter her eyes.

   • 1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part first, London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, Act VI, scene vii, page 218:

     Lady many-spoused, more charity
     Upbrims in thee than in some loftier ones
     Who would not name thee with their white-washed tongues.