urn

A vase of varying size and shape, usually having a footed base or pedestal.

A closed metal vessel having a spigot and used for warming or serving tea or coffee.

The spore-bearing part of a moss capsule.

To inclose in an urn, or as in an urn; inurn.

A kind of vase, usually rather large, having an oviform or rounded body with a foot; by extension (since the ashes of the dead were formerly put into such vessels), any receptacle for the dead body or its remains.

A place of burial; a grave.

A Roman measure for liquids, containing one half the amphora.

A tea-urn.

In botany, the hollow vessel in which the spores of mosses are produced; the sporogonium or spore-case; the theca. See cut under moss.

In the Dicyemida, specifically, a cup-like part of the infusoriform embryo of a rhombogenous dicyemid, consisting of a capsule, a lid, and contents. See Dicyemida, and cut under Dicyema.