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urn
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What does urn mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (5)
noun
- (figuratively) Any place of burial; the grave.
- A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
- Initialism of uniform resource name.
- (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.
verb
- To place in an urn.
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To dream of an urn, foretells you will prosper in some respects, and in others disfavor will be apparent.
The relics, put into a silver urn, with a crown of gold to cover it, he sent back to his son.
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When Clym came home, which was shortly after, his mother said, in a curious tone, “The urn you had meant for me you gave away.”
The solemn procession, headed by Baddeley, of tea-board, urn, and cake-bearers, made its appearance, and delivered her from a grievous imprisonment of body and mind.
Otherwise we can certainly never imagine how so many instincts, and these so complex and perfect, could have issued suddenly "from the urn of hazard."