Urn
URN, noun [Latin urna.]
1. A kind of vase of a roundish form, largest in the middle; used as an ornament.
2. A vessel for water.
3. A vessel in which the ashes of the dead were formerly kept.
4. A Roman measure for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.