urn

Definitions

• A vase with a footed base.
• A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
• A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
• (figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.
• (historical) 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.
• (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.