1. urn - Noun
2. urn - Verb
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.
Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
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.
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
A tea urn. See under Tea.
To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings. William Cowper
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head. Robert Browning
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. Friedrich Schiller
Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire. Ralph Waldo Emerson
He always had to use holy water-real holy water, from gallon jugs he filled from the silver urn at St. Anne's-but though it impressed the customers, all he could see that it actually did was get stuff wet. Tim Powers
Learning is a golden urn that can never be stolen. Mannar Proverb