When horror universal shall descend, And heaven's dark
concave urn all human race. --Young.
A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an
urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.
--Bp. Wilkins.
His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, And once
more join us in the pious urn. --Dryden.
2. Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, Tombless,
with no remembrance over them. --Shak.
3. (Rom. Antiq.) 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.
4. (Bot.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the
spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
5. A tea urn. See under {Tea}.
{Urn mosses} (Bot.), the order of true mosses; -- so called
because the capsules of many kinds are urn-shaped.