urn
A vase with a footed base.
Noun
- A vase with a footed base.
- A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […]found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn. - 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematicall Magick. Or, The Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanicall Geometry. […],...
- His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn. - 1700, [John] Dryden, “Canace to Macareus”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Mary Fibbs and all her friends start making coughing noises whenever I come near them, and then they all giggle and Mary says Grandfather mixes his cough medicine in the urns on top of the gate posts after dark with his...
- A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
- A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
- So draw him home to those that mourn In vain; a favourable speed Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn. - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward...
- Any place of burial; the grave.
- Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them. - 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies...
- 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.
- A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
Origin
From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.
Forms
Derived
cinerary urn knife urn lachrymal urn tea urn urn moss urn tree
Verb
- To place in an urn.