URN

Urn

An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered, that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal. "Knife urns" placed on pedestals flanking a dining-room sideboard were an English innovation for high-style dining rooms of the late 1760s. They went out of fashion in the following decade, in favour of knife boxes that were placed on the sideboard.

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urn

Noun

  1. a vase with a footed base
  2. a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee
  3. a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
  4. Any place of burial; the grave.
  5. 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.
  6. A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.


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