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urn definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
n. 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.
n. A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
n. A tea urn. See under Tea.
v. t. To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.

Crossword clues for urn

- A container fix the ashes of the dead
- A vase
- Alternative current for hot water cylinder
- Ashes jar
- Cremation vase
- Cremation vessel
- Decorative garden pot
- Fancy vase
- Garden ornament
- Grecian pot
- Grecian vase
- Holder for ashes
- Hot drink dispenser
- Hot water vessel
- Large jar
- Large jar has even current
- Large jug
- Large tea vessel
- Large vase
- Make sounds like a vessel
- Ornate garden pot
- Receptacle that is like a vase
- Returning middle vase
- Rounded vase
- Run around with pot
- Said to earn a pot
- Samovar
- Tea dispenser
- Tea-serving container
- Vase
- Vase for storing ashes
- Vase like receptacle
- Vase put back in rubbish
- Vase wrapped by your neighbours
- Vase-like vessel
- Vaselike receptacle
- Vaselike Vessel
- Water boiler
- Water heater
- Water vessel