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; the grave.
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 spore case; a
theca.
A tea urn. See under Tea.
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