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  • English Word Urn Definition 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.
  • English Word Urn Definition Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
  • English Word Urn Definition 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.
  • English Word Urn Definition A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
  • English Word Urn Definition A tea urn. See under Tea.
  • English Word Urn Definition To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
  • English Word Urn-shaped Definition Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.
  • English Word Urnal Definition Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns.
  • English Word Urnful Definition As much as an urn will hold; enough to fill an urn.
  • English Word Urnfuls Definition of Urnful
  • English Word Uro- Definition A combining form fr. Gr. o'y^ron, urine.
  • English Word Uro- Definition A combining form from Gr. o'yra`, the tail, the caudal extremity.
  • English Word Urobilin Definition A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.
  • English Word Urocele Definition A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.
  • English Word Urocerata Definition A division of boring Hymenoptera, including Tremex and allied genera. See Illust. of Horntail.
  • English Word Urochord Definition The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.
  • English Word Urochorda Definition Same as Tunicata.
  • English Word Urochordal Definition Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.
  • English Word Urochrome Definition A yellow urinary pigment, considered by Thudichum as the only pigment present in normal urine. It is regarded by Maly as identical with urobilin.
  • English Word Urochs Definition See Aurochs.
  • English Word Urocord Definition See Urochord.
  • English Word Urocyst Definition The urinary bladder.
  • English Word Urodela Definition An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.
  • English Word Urodele Definition One of the Urodela.
  • English Word Urodelian Definition Of or pertaining to the Urodela.
  • English Word Urodelian Definition One of the Urodela.
  • English Word Uroerythrin Definition A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.
  • English Word Urogastric Definition Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.
  • English Word Urogenital Definition Same as Urinogenital.
  • English Word Uroglaucin Definition A body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican.