Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brink"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brink \Brink\, n. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
brink
n 1: a region marking a boundary [syn: {threshold}, {verge}]
2: the edge of a steep place
3: the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the
verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy" [syn: {verge}]
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