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From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.

A vase with a footed base. A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […]found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.
A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person. So draw him home to those that mourn ⁠In vain; a favourable speed ⁠Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
figuratively Any place of burial; the grave. Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
Roman, 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.
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

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