"urn" Definition

Definitions for the word "urn" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A tea urn. See under Tea.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 vase with a foot and usu. A rounded body, used esp. For the ashes of the dead. 2 large vessel with a tap, in which tea or coffee etc. Is made or kept hot. [latin urna]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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