urn

Meanings

1. 1
   noun A vase with a footed base.
2. 2
   noun A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
3. 3
   noun A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
4. 4
   noun Any place of burial; the grave.
5. 5
   noun 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.
6. 6
   noun A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
7. 7
   verb To place in an urn.