An urn is a large, hollow vase that's usually made of metal or clay. Some urns are used for making coffee or tea, others are made to put someone’s ashes in. Go figure.
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.
Noun
a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
Noun
a large pot for making coffee or tea
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.
n.
Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
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.
n.
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of
mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
n.
A tea urn. See under Tea.
v. t.
To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
Urn
A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.
His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, And once more join us in the pious urn.2.
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, Tombless, with no remembrance over them.3.
Urn
When horror universal shall descend, And heaven's dark concave urn all human race.
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.
To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
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