OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21056

urn

/ɜːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
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.
His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn.
urna • urna mortuoria
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.
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