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n. A brimful bowl; a bumper. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Full to the brim; overflowing. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having a broad brim. [ 1913 Webster ]
A broad-brimmed flat silver plate. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. grimme. ] (Zool.) A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also
n. An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ A corruption of skirmish. “Sore scrymmishe.” Ld. Berners. ]
n. See Scrimmage. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Thus Halifax was a trimmer on principle. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. from Trim, v. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
Trimming joist (Arch.),
n.
adv. In a trimming manner. [ 1913 Webster ]