n. & v.
--n.
1. a vase with a foot and usu. a rounded body, esp. for storing the ashes of the cremated dead or as a vessel or measure.
2 a large vessel with a tap, in which tea or coffee etc. is made or kept hot.
3 poet. anything in which a dead body or its remains are preserved, e.g. a grave.
--v.tr. enclose in an urn.
Derivatives:
urnful n. (pl. -fuls).
Etymology: ME f. L urna, rel. to urceus pitcher