urn

/ɜːn//ɝn/

noun

  1. 1

    A vase with a footed base.

  2. 2

    A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

  3. 3

    A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.

  4. 4

    Any place of burial; the grave.

  5. 5

    A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.

  6. 6

    A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

verb

  1. 1

    To place in an urn.

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