URN

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

urn
    n 1: a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
    2: a large pot for making coffee or tea

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Urn \Urn\, n. [OE. urne, L. urna; perhaps fr. urere to burn, and
   sop called as being made of burnt clay (cf. {East}): cf. F.
   urne.]
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   1. 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 rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an
            urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.
                                                  --Bp. Wilkins.
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            His scattered limbs with my dead body burn,
            And once more join us in the pious urn. --Dryden.
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   2. Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
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            Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
            Tombless, with no remembrance over them. --Shak.
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   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.
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   4. (Bot.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the
      spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
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   5. A tea urn. See under {Tea}.
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   {Urn mosses} (Bot.), the order of true mosses; -- so called
      because the capsules of many kinds are urn-shaped.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Urn \Urn\, v. t.
   To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
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         When horror universal shall descend,
         And heaven's dark concave urn all human race. --Young.
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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Uniform Resource Name
URN

   <World-Wide Web> (URN, previously Uniform/Universal Resource
   Number) 1. Any {URI} which is not a {URL}.

   2. A particular scheme which is currently (1991-4) under
   development by the {IETF}, which should provide for the
   resolution using {Internet} {protocols} of names which have a
   greater persistence than that currently associated with
   Internet {host} names or organisations (as used in {URLs}).
   Uniform Resource Names will be URI schemes that improve on
   URLs in reliability over time, including authenticity,
   replication, and high availability.

   When defined, a URN in sense 1 will be an example of a URN in
   sense 2.

   (http://w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html).

   (2006-04-18)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

URN
       Uniform Resource Name (WWW, RFC 1737)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "urn":
      adobe, biscuit, bisque, bone pot, bowl, brick, cement,
      ceramic ware, ceramics, china, cinerary urn, crock, crockery,
      enamelware, firebrick, funeral urn, glass, jug, ossuary, porcelain,
      pot, pottery, refractory, tile, tiling, vase