urnn.
/əːn/, U.S. /ərn/ 1. An earthenware or metal vessel or vase of a rounded or ovaloid form and with a circular base, used by various peoples esp. in former times (notably by the Romans and Greeks) to preserve the ashes of the dead. Hence vaguely used (esp. poetic) for ‘a tomb or sepulchre, the grave’.In frequent use from c1640.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > cinerary urn
urn1374
pig1531
cinerary urn1753
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]
buriels854
througheOE
burianOE
graveOE
lairc1000
lair-stowc1000
lich-restc1000
pitOE
grass-bedOE
buriness1175
earth housec1200
sepulchrec1200
tombc1300
lakec1320
buriala1325
monumenta1325
burying-place1382
resting placea1387
sepulturea1387
beda1400
earth-beda1400
longhousea1400
laystow1452
lying1480
delfa1500
worms' kitchen?a1500
bier1513
laystall1527
funeral?a1534
lay-bed1541
restall1557
cellarc1560
burying-grave1599
pit-hole1602
urn1607
cell1609
hearse1610
polyandrum1627
requietory1631
burial-place1633
mortuary1654
narrow cell1686
ground-sweat1699
sacred place1728
narrow house1792
plot1852
narrow bed1854
1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 311 The poudre..prey I þe þow take and it conserue In a vessel, þat men clepeþ an vrne, Of gold.
14.. J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Caxton) i vi b The pyece..Was by an aungel in an vrne of golde To charlis brought.
1420–2 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes iii. 4575 Some of hem with vrnes made of gold, whan the asshes fully weren made cold, Tenclosyn hem.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster Famous Hist. Thomas Wyat sig. A3 Alasse, how small an Vrne containes a King?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 228 Lay these bones in an vnworthy Vrne, Tomblesse, with no remembrance ouer them. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. viii. 24 When she is dead, Her Ashes, in an Vrne..Transported, shall be at high Festiuals. View more context for this quotation
1658 Sir T. Browne (title) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk.
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis xiii. 18 So, rising from his Fathers Urn, So Glorious did our Charles return.
1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iv. 376 Ordering his Urn to be brought,..[Severus] said, Little Urn, thou shalt now contain what the whole World could not before.
1751 T. Gray Elegy xi. 7 Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI xviii. 70 As you turn Backward and forward..voices from the urn Appear to wake.
1838 J. Murray Econ. Vegetation iii. 76 The capsule of the poppy..seems to have been adopted as the pattern of the cinerary urn.
1875 W. Eassie Cremation 16 In both ancient Greece and Rome the dwelling-house was made the repository of the funeral urns.
1875 W. Eassie Cremation 123 Urns of gold and silver were not uncommon in ancient times, and are even yet used in Siam.
2. † b. in the urn, not yet discovered; unknown.
a. A vessel for holding voting-tablets, lots, or balls, in casting lots, voting, etc. Chiefly Roman History.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] > means of signifying choice > vessel for holding
urn1513
balloting box1620
balloting glass1620
ballot boxa1677
the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > choosing by casting lots > object used in > container for
urn1513
lot-pot1603
lottery pot1629
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. i. 46 The deidlie vrne.., Out of the quhilk the lottis warrin draw.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. vii. 18 The fatale wrn and ballance.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. M Come, Wee of the Bench, Let's rise to the Vrne, and condemne 'hem.
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 72 The number of the Ballottants at either Urn.
1703 M. Prior Ode to Col. Villiers 92 When th' Infernal Judges dismal Pow'r From the dark Urn shall throw Thy destin'd Hour.
1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic II. xii. 235 To draw out of the Urn none but the Names of such Tribes.
1781 J. Moore View Society & Manners Italy I. xi. 121 Each elector..throws a little billet into an urn... On this billet is inscribed the person's name.
1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. I. viii. 201 Urns for the Ballot... These urns were of two kinds.
1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 54 A white ball has been drawn, and from one or other of the two following urns.
1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 368 Suppose we put in an urn..3 white balls, in a second urn..4 white balls.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective]
uncouthc897
neweOE
fremdc950
unknownOE
unseena1200
unketha1275
unkedc1275
strange13..
disguisyc1330
unknowedc1380
aliena1382
unhearda1382
unkenneda1400
ranishc1400
ignorant?a1475
unwittenc1485
unbekend1513
unacquainted1551
unkent1579
unwitted1582
unfamiliar1593
unsounded1594
incognite1609
ignote1623
in the urn1658
unfathomed1659
unexperienced1698
unknown-of1700
undiscovered1707
inaudite1708
darka1727
unascertained1751
unwist1757
unknownst1805
unbeknown1824
unbeknownst1848
unsampled1890
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 2 That great Antiquity America lay buried for a thousand years; and a large part of the earth is still in the Urne unto us.
c. A ballot-box.
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1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 21 Dec. 6/1 Nearly 75 per cent. of the..voters appeared at the urns.
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 8 Dec. 428/1 Since the extension of the suffrage [in Italy], the attendance at the urns has considerably fallen off.
3. in extended use.1857 C. Heavysege Saul (1869) 234 [A] song..Falling as faintly and as dewlike down Into the urn of my night-opened ear.figurative.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) II. xiv. 171 The steady orb of a planet, its golden urn filled at the fountain of the sun.1860 C. Sangster Hesperus 26 Morn on the mountains lights his urn of fire.1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 72 O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
a. A hollow (esp. earthenware) vessel or pot of an oviform or rounded shape, and having a circular base; used for various purposes. Also in figurative context.
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1640 T. Carew Poems 10 Vesta is not displeas'd if her chast vrne Doe with repayred fuell ever burne.
1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. x. 234 As a rustick was digging the ground..he found an Urne..in which there was another urne, and in this lesser, a lamp clearly burning.
1656 A. Cowley Dialogue in Mistress iv Like Tapers shut in ancient Urns.
1757 T. Gray Ode I iii. iii, in Odes 11 Bright-eyed Fancy..Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts, that breathe.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. viii. 131 He put A penny in the urn of poverty.
1851 J. M. Neale Mediæval Hymns 102 Here the urn of manna standeth.
b. A sculptured ornament resembling or shaped like a vase, water-pot, or cinerary urn.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > a sculpture or carving > group or spec. subject
antic1532
Our Lady Piety1533
drapery1552
antiquary1573
urn1653
story1657
Pietàc1660
gigantomachy1820
set piece1846
terminal1865
wheatear1882
protome1886
protoma1894
koruru1897
blemya1915
Lincoln imp1926
1653 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 530 Her statue..set uppon an Urne or Pedestall.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Theatrical vessels, and great Hippodrome Urnes in Rome.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Urn, Urna, a kind of Vase,..now seldom used, but as Ornaments over Chimney-pieces, in Buffets, &c.
1767 R. Jago Edge-hill i. 472 Nor the lone Hermit's Cell, or mournful Urn Build on the sprightly Lawn.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 150 Soft lustre bathes the range of urns On every slanting terrace-lawn.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. xi. 277 The cedar on the lawn..and the granite urns on the garden wall.
1885 J. B. Fleming Let. to Dr. W. G. Blackie 20 Mar. (MS.) The Draped Urn of Monumental Sculpture.
1885 J. B. Fleming Let. to Dr. W. G. Blackie 20 Mar. (MS.) Draped or Monumental Urns.
4. figurative and in extended use.1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiv. 663 Two Urns by Jove's high Throne have ever stood,..From thence the Cup of Mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes Ills.1781 W. Cowper Charity 436 When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise.1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 19 Her simplicity of thought was daily filled, from the urns of invisible spirits.a1866 B. Taylor Summer Camp 13 Shadelike dew Poured from the urns of twilight.
a. An oviform pitcher or vessel for holding water, etc.; a water-pitcher, water-pot.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > jar > [noun] > urn
urn1609
1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Vrne, a pot or pitcher.
1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Æneis (1684) vii. 286 There Argus watch'd, lest to her shape she [sc. Io] turn, By Inachus pouring from a graven Urn.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 205/2 Temperance hath a Cup in the one hand, and a Bottle Urn in the other, pouring Wine thereout.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 398 But by thy care twelve urns of wine be fill'd.
1747 J. Spence Polymetis 172 Aquarius..holds the cup or little urn in his hand, inclined downwards.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature I. 252 Some very ancient medals, in which rivers were represented by figures leaning on an urn.
1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xi. 10 One from a lucid urn of starry dew Washed his light limbs.
1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 273 The wedding guests are met, The urns are duly set.
1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason iv. 80 To turn the mill, and carry forth the urn Unto the stream.
b. The source of a stream, river, etc.; a spring or fountain. Also, the course of a stream.From the practice of representing river gods or nymphs in sculpture or painting as holding, leaning upon, or pouring water from, an urn.
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the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun]
welleOE
walma897
spring?1316
spring wellc1340
water springc1450
source1477
fountain1490
quick-spring1530
eye1535
fountainhead1585
fount1594
springlet1661
keld1697
urn1726
spout head1733
spout1778
seep1824
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > course
gangeOE
streama1552
train1570
sweep1596
river channel1629
currency1657
thread1691
current1708
urn1726
river run1927
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > head or source
headeOE
wellspringOE
springOE
uptaking1241
head wella1325
wellheadc1330
sourcec1386
headspringa1398
headstreama1398
risinga1398
surge1523
springhead?a1560
head fountain1563
water head1567
fountainhead1585
headwater1612
fill1622
water source1651
urn1726
vomica1838
sponge-swamp1901
1692 M. Prior Ode Imitation Horace x Where-e'er old Rhine his fruitful Water turns, Or fills his Vassals Tributary Urns.]
1726 E. Young Universal Passion (Satire the Last) 11 From the rich store one fruitful urn supplies, Whole Kingdoms smile, a thousand Harvests rise.
1767 R. Jago Edge-hill i. 209 From many a subterraneous Reservoir,..the rocky Urns..their liquid Stores discharge.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 76 Ten thousand rivers poured..From urns that never fail.
1810 T. L. Peacock Genius of Thames 10 The streams roll on, nor e'er return To fill again their parent urn.
1825 H. W. Longfellow Woods in Winter in U.S. Lit. Gaz. 1 Feb. 317/1 From their frozen urns mute springs Pour out the river's gradual tide.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory iv, in Poems 61 The brook..Drawing into his narrow earthen urn,..The filtered tribute of the rough woodland.
c. A bottle or vase for holding tears (frequently with lachrymal). Also transferred.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > grave goods > tear-bottle
lachrymatory1658
tear-bottle1658
urn1753
lachrymary1755
lachrymal1769
tear-jug1869
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Another kind of Urns were those which they called lachrymales, or the tear-Urns. These were contrived to receive the tears of the friends of the deceased.
1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton III. 46 I opened the little trunk,..which may properly be called the lachrymal urn of the unfortunate Maria.
1837 Popular Encycl. VI. 764 Little vessels have occasionally been found in ancient tombs, denominated lachrymal urns.
d. Astronomy. (With capital initial.) The constellation of Aquarius.
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the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Aquarius
Aquariusa1398
waterer1546
waterman1565
water-pourer1565
water-bearer1594
skinker1605
urn1633
water boy1640
water carrier1830
water-can1869
1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 59 in Purple Island The sunne, which yet in fishes hasks, Or watry urn, impounds his fainting head.
1697 T. Creech tr. Manilius Five Bks. ii. 65 The Fish oppose the Maid, the watry Urn With adverse Fires sees raging Leo burn.
1770 M. Akenside Odes i. xvi. 1 With sordid floods the wintry Urn Hath stained fair Richmond's level green.
5. Short for tea-urn n. at tea n.1 Compounds 3.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1781 W. Hayley Triumphs of Temper iv. 120 No smoke arises from the silver urn, And the blank tea-board..Only supplied the paper of the day.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 38 The bubbling and loud-hissing urn.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 197 James brought up the urn, and received an unlimited order for dry toast and bacon.
1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xxi Miss Blake presided over the urn and teapots.
6.
a. Botany. The spore-case or capsule of urn-mosses.
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > urn-moss and parts
urn1840
urn-moss1846
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 9/2 The urn (sporangium, or theca) in which the spores, or seed-like bodies, are generated.
1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §736 The fructification of Mosses..consists of a capsule or urn, borne at the top of a long foot~stalk, which grows out from the centre of a cluster of leaves.
1890 Nature 20 Feb. 379 The mosses unfold the delicate lacework of their dainty urns.
b. Biology. An urn-shaped process or part.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity > urn- or cup-shaped cavity
cup1540
calix1708
calyx1828
calicle1848
eye cup1876
urn1877
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals xi. 655 An infusoriform, bilaterally symmetrical embryo, which consists of an urn, a ciliated body, and two refractive bodies.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World 370 No power on earth can make these little urns of the Polycystinæ except Life.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1.)
urn-burial n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [noun] > burial in specific container
urn-burial1658
urn-buryinga1682
urn sepulture1857
pot burial1899
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [noun] > burial in specific type of tomb
tumulation1623
urn-burial1658
house burial1863
mound burial1865
tree-burial1901
pipe-burial1929
1658Urn-burial [see sense 1].
a1796 in Gentleman's Mag. 66 i. 41/1 The latter [sc. Danish] people used urn-burial, and burnt their dead.
1836 Archaeol. XXVI. 370 Evidence..that urn burial had been disused at length by the Romans.
urn-graveyard n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > urn-cemetery
urn-graveyard1888
urnfield1889
1888 R. Brown Our Earth & its Story II. 264/1 A separate kind of burial-place are the urn-graveyards.
urn-niche n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > cinerary urn > niche for
urn-niche1848
1848 J. Grant Adventures Aide-de-camp xii The dismal aspect of the place—its dark walls and darker urn-niches.
urn sepulture n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [noun] > burial in specific container
urn-burial1658
urn-buryinga1682
urn sepulture1857
pot burial1899
1857 in W. Eassie Cremation (1875) 127 Burning the Dead, or Urn-Sepulture..generally considered.
b. (In sense 5.)
urn-room n.
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1901 Guinness Trust, Fulham P. Rd. 6 The urn room..is fitted with a series of copper kettles.
urn-stand n.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a stand or support to raise from the ground > others spec.
joistc1503
standing quoin1626
pot-board1696
urn-stand1862
check-stand1886
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxx. §5773 Marble chess-table and urn-stand.
c. (In sense 2c.)
urn-system n.
ΚΠ
1901 Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 6/1 The urn system existing in the French Chamber.
d.
urn-burying n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [noun] > burial in specific container
urn-burial1658
urn-buryinga1682
urn sepulture1857
pot burial1899
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 154 They might be erected..before the term of Urn-burying or custom of burning the dead expired.
urn-maker n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > makers of other containers or receptacles
cofferer1401
pail maker1559
trugger1566
trunk-maker1701
corver1708
swiller1859
urn-maker?1881
vase-maker1893
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 46 Tray Maker. Urn Maker.
e.
urn-cornered adj.
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1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 45 Terrace after terrace of shaven sward, stone-edged, urn-cornered.
urn-enclosing adj.
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a1661 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. (1673) 295 The hollow womb Of his..urn-inclosing tomb.
urn-like adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object
camois1664
pouch-likea1676
scaphoidal1681
spoon-likea1686
umbilicated1693
umbilicate1698
saucer-shaped1753
boat-shaped1760
pouchy1786
cupped1796
urn-shaped1796
naviform1816
spoon-shaped1817
urn-like1826
vase-shaped1832
bag-shaped1836
basin-like1836
trough-like1839
urceiform1840
vase-like1840
saucered1847
bag-like1849
sac-like1849
pouch-shaped1854
basin-shaped1859
trough-shaped1871
bucketed1886
spooned1890
1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxxii. 281 A tall urn-like china-pot.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 320 Thecæ, hollow urn-like cases seated upon a seta or stalk.
urn-shaped adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object
camois1664
pouch-likea1676
scaphoidal1681
spoon-likea1686
umbilicated1693
umbilicate1698
saucer-shaped1753
boat-shaped1760
pouchy1786
cupped1796
urn-shaped1796
naviform1816
spoon-shaped1817
urn-like1826
vase-shaped1832
bag-shaped1836
basin-like1836
trough-like1839
urceiform1840
vase-like1840
saucered1847
bag-like1849
sac-like1849
pouch-shaped1854
basin-shaped1859
trough-shaped1871
bucketed1886
spooned1890
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 211 Nectary concave, urn-shaped.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 246 The spermogonia..are urn-shaped receptacles.
urn-topped adj.
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1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 54 An urn-topped column.
C2.
urn animalcule n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Infusoria > [noun] > member of > Trichodinae
urn animalcule1847
1847 T. R. Jones in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 11/2 The Trichodinæ, or Urn animalcules,..are provided with a fasciculus or circlet of cilia situated in front of their bodies, which are disc-shaped, bowl-shaped, or conical.
urnfield n. a cemetery of individual cremation graves with remains in pottery urns, esp. as used by North European peoples from c1200 b.c. onwards; also attributive, esp. designating peoples using this rite or their cultures.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > types of prehistoric
food vessel1866
stone-using1870
urnfield1889
hunter-gatherer1928
funnel-beaker1954
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > urn-cemetery
urn-graveyard1888
urnfield1889
1889 Soc. Antiquaries, Notice of Meeting 5 Dec. Celtic Pottery from an ancient British urn-field.
1928 V. G. Childe in Antiquity 2 37 The later phases of the Bronze Age are marked by the spread of large cremation cemeteries generally termed urnfields.
1958 T. G. E. Powell Celts 38 The dead were generally cremated, and the broken bones placed in an urn for burial in a flat cemetery. Many of these cemeteries..have been called urnfields so that the descriptive labels ‘Urnfield Period’ and ‘Urnfield Culture’ have come into use.
1968 A. Powell Mil. Philosophers iv. 177 I walked up the road.., leaving them [sc. Welshmen] to move eastward towards the urnfields of their Bronze Age home.
1979 B. Cunliffe Celtic World 15/1 This period, generally referred to..as the Urnfield period, is typified by the appearance of large cremation cemeteries, the ashes of the dead interred in urns. The tradition took form in Hungary sometime in the thirteenth century B.C. and was rapidly adopted further west.
urn-flower n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of south or tropical America
marvel of Peru1597
flower of the night1665
world's wonder1706
butterfly flower1731
mirabilis1754
four o'clock flower1756
bastard mustard1759
Browallia1782
bastard plantain1796
cleome1806
alonsoa1812
gloxinia1816
schizanthus1823
butterfly plant1825
petunia1825
sinningia1826
salpiglossis1827
mask flower1834
poinsettia1836
guaco1844
spiderwort1846
mist flower1848
balisier1858
spider flower1861
sun plant1862
eucharis1866
pretty-by-night1869
Rocky Mountain bee plant1870
urn-flower1891
tulip-poppy1909
smithiantha1917
poor man's orchid1922
ten o'clock1953
tiger-iris-
1891 Cent. Dict. Urceolina pendula and U. latifolia are border plants from Peru, known in cultivation as urn-flower.
urn-moss n. (see quots.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > urn-moss and parts
urn1840
urn-moss1846
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 66 Urnmosses are found in all parts of the world where the atmosphere is humid.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1194/2 Urn-Mosses,..the Bryaceæ or true Mosses.
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† urnv.1
Scottish. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To cause pain or anguish to (a person); to pain, irritate. Also absol.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > suffer pain [verb (transitive)] > cause pain
aileOE
grieve?c1225
girdc1275
painc1375
putc1390
sorea1400
troublec1400
anguisha1425
vex?c1425
urn1488
suffera1500
exagitate1532
fire1602
trachle1889
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)]
quelmeOE
eatc1000
martyrOE
fretc1175
woundc1175
to-fret?c1225
gnawc1230
to-traya1250
torment1297
renda1333
anguish1340
grindc1350
wringc1374
debreakc1384
ofpinec1390
rivea1400
urn1488
reboil1528
whip1530
cruciate1532
pinch1548
spur-galla1555
agonize1570
rack1576
cut1582
excruciate1590
scorchc1595
discruciate1596
butcher1597
split1597
torture1598
lacerate1600
harrow1603
hell1614
to eat upa1616
arrow1628
martyrize1652
percruciate1656
tear1666
crucify1702
flay1782
wrench1798
kill1800
to cut up1843
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 384 So bett I am with strakis sad and sar. The cheyle wattir vrned me mekill mar.
1559 Reg. St. Andrews Kirk Session (S.H.S.) I. 18 Give thei be vexed and urnet with ustioun and urgent appetites of the flesche.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xl. 58 Let furious Faits be fearce; Let absence vrne; let Cupids arrou peirce.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 270 When he died, I mervelit at my awin hart that was so urened and moved with it.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To urn the ee, to pain the eye, as a mote or a grain of sand does.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Ern Nae sae muckle as would ern your ee.
2. intransitive. To feel or suffer pain. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > be painful [verb (intransitive)] > suffer pain
sorryeOE
urna1600
a1600 A. Montgomerie Sonnets xxxvi. 4 I vrne for anger, ȝit I haif no yre.
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urnv.2
/əːn/, U.S. /ərn/ a. transitive. To deposit (ashes, or bones) in a cinerary urn; to enclose in or as in an urn. Also transferred.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > cremate [verb (transitive)] > place ashes in urn
inurna1616
urna1625
a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) i. i. 44 He will not suffer us..To urne their ashes. View more context for this quotation
1651 W. Barker in Cartwright Poems b 7 Their scatter'd Ashes are rak't up and Urn'd.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 41 When Horror Universal shall descend, And Heav'n's dark Concave urn all Human Race.
1849 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 66 380 Nature has, during a season, cased and urned its torpid and death-like repose.
1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 87 The gathered bones In a bronze casket Corinæus urned.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)]
bedelveOE
begraveOE
burya1000
beburyc1000
bifel-ec1000
layc1000
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
tombc1275
gravec1300
inter1303
rekec1330
to lap in leadc1340
to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340
lie1387
to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400
to lay lowa1425
earthc1450
sepulture1490
to put awaya1500
tyrea1500
mould1530
to graith in the grave1535
ingrave1535
intumulate1535
sepult1544
intumil?c1550
yird1562
shrinea1566
infera1575
entomb1576
sepelite1577
shroud1577
funeral1578
to load with earth1578
delve1587
to lay up1591
sepulchrize1595
pit-hole1607
infuneral1610
mool1610
inhumate1612
inurna1616
inhume1616
pit1621
tumulate1623
sepulchrea1626
turf1628
underlay1639
urna1657
to lay to sleep, asleep1701
envaulta1745
plant1785
ensepulchre1820
sheugh1839
to put under1879
to lay away1885
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xli, in Poems (1878) IV. 111 Richard, whose Bones..Slept in a Cottage; Harry doth remove To better lodging; vrnes him, like a King.
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- on, upon deposit
- on, upon in deposit
- on, upon in the a condition
- on, upon in the condition
- on, upon in the such condition
- on, upon in the that condition
- on, upon in the this condition
- on, upon loft
- on, upon of the a condition
- on, upon of the condition
- on, upon of the such condition
- on, upon of the that condition
- on, upon of the this condition
- on, upon stays
- on, upon the a condition
- on, upon the back
- on, upon the back of
- on, upon the condition
- on, upon the loft
- on, upon the score
- on, upon the score of
- on, upon the stays
- on, upon the stretch
- on, upon the such condition