URN
\ˈɜːn], \ˈɜːn], \ˈɜː_n]\
Definitions of URN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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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 hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
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A tea urn. See under Tea.
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To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
By Oddity Software
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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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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 hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
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A tea urn. See under Tea.
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To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A kind of vase used for various purposes: a vessel in which the ashes of the dead were anciently deposited.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] A vessel of various forms, usually largest in the middle, and furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, i for holding lots to be drawn, and for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation.
