urn

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.
• His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn.

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.

Any place of burial; the grave.figuratively

• Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

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.Romanhistorical

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

To place in an urn.transitive