A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
puhekieltä Any place of burial; the grave.
Shakespeare
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
puhekieltä 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.
puhekieltä A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.