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A celebrated cinerary urn or vase found in the tomb of the Emperor Alexander Severus. It is owned by the Duke of Portland, and kept in the British Museum.
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A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
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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.
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A tea urn. See under Tea.
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Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.
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A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney attached, which passes through the urn.
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Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.
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A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
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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.
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Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns.
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A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.
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A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
v. t.
To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.
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To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
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As much as an urn will hold; enough to fill an urn.
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Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.
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Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
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Any urn-shaped organ of a plant.
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of Urnful
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The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.
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