urn

• a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
• a large pot for making coffee or tea
• 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
• Fig.: Any place of burial
• 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
• A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained
• A tea urn
• To inclose in, or as in, an urn

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