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Webster 1913 Edition

(brĭṉk)

Noun.

[Dan.

brink

edge, verge; akin to Sw.

brink

declivity, hill, Icel.

brekka

; cf. LG.

brink

a grassy hill, W.

bryn

hill,

bryncyn

hillock.]

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border;

as, the

brink

of a chasm

. Also Fig.

“The brink of vice.”

Bp. Porteus.

“The brink of ruin.”

Burke.

The plashy

brink

of weedy lake.

Bryant.

Noun.

The edge, margin or border of a steep place, as of a precipice, or the bank of a river.