Word Finder - urn

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A vase with a footed base.

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A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

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A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.

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Any place of burial; the grave.

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A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.

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A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

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To place in an urn.

Not a pump or a tea urn to be seen.

Another was a funeral urn for a Great Dane's ashes.

Classic lighting designs include urn shaped decorative table lamps.

To the right of the entrance to the palace gardens is the tomb of the "great landgravine," Caroline Henrietta, wife of the landgrave Louis IX., surmounted by a marble urn, the gift of Frederick the Great of Prussia, bearing the inscription femina sexu, ingenio vir.

There was also a bronze spearhead and part of a beaker and a cinerary urn.

For the environmentally conscious individual, a green burial may be more appropriate, while others may prefer to be cremated and have their ashes scattered or placed in a family urn.

For children urn burial was common, with 73 sets of children?

The principal display is on the side of the Urn Steps.

On the 16th of the month Maimacterion, a long procession, headed by a trumpeter playing a warlike air, set out for the graves; wagons decked with myrtle and garlands of flowers followed, young men (who must be of free birth) carried jars of wine, milk, oil and perfumes; next came the black bull destined for the sacrifice, the rear being brought up by the archon, who wore the purple robe of the general, a naked sword in one hand, in the other an urn.

The oldest are tombe a pozzo, or shaft graves, containing the ashes of the dead in an urn, of the Villanova period, the oldest of them probably pre-Etruscan; in some of these tombs hut urns, like those of Latium, are found.

From Honduras to Panama the urn burials, the pottery, the rude carved images and, above all, the grotesque jewellery, absorb the archaeologist's attention.

The samovar, or urn for boiling the water, is always much in evidence.

The chamber, no longer regarded as a habitation to be tenanted by the deceased, became simply a cist for the reception of the urn which held his ashes.

In the chamber of one, opened in 1829, there was found an urn full of calcined bones; and along with it were ornaments of gold showing the characteristic workmanship of the 5th and 6th centuries of the Christian era.

The white and calcined bones were then picked out of the ashes by the friends and placed in a metallic urn, which was deposited in a hollow grave or cist and covered over with large well-fitting stones.

The incinerated bones were collected from the ashes and placed in a golden urn along with those of Patroclus, Achilles's dearest friend.

Marriage and child-bearing, in the first place, are operative amongst a fraction of the population only - those of conceptive age; whereas to the Urn of Death, as Dr Farr expressed it, all ages are called upon to contribute in their differing degrees.

The body becomes in shape like a vase or urn attached by a narrow stalk, round which a chitinous membrane is secreted.

In 1905 gold mining recommenced in Nubia, in the district of Urn Nabardi, which is in the desert, about midway between Wadi Halfa and Abu Hamed.

His ashes were deposited in a golden urn on the Rhoetean promontory at the entrance of the Hellespont.

The urn of Isotta's sarcophagus is supported by two elephants, and bears the inscription, "D.

In the first, to the right, is the urn of the poet Basinio, one of his pensioners, in the second that of Giusto de' Conti, author of some rhymes on the Bella Mano, while the third bore the more famous name of Gemisthus Pletho.

There, the precise association in the urn with different parts of the body strongly suggested the veneers had decorated an ornamental bier.

Their cremated bones were placed in an urn under a large stone in the southern part of the cairn.

The bar is divided by glazed screens with urn finials, to allow customers chatting at the bar a little privacy from their neighbors.

Near the same spot was found, some years ago, a clay cinerary urn, of the form commonly held to be Roman.

A Grecian urn is draped in a cloth to symbolize mourning.

The figure is believed to be the lid of a pagan funerary urn.

With an old garden wall as a backdrop, a classical urn forms the focal point.

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In 2000, a bronze age inverted cremation urn was noted about a meter down in the cliff face.

The sound of running water over a terracotta urn complete this garden.

On 29th December 1851, cremated human bones were found together with pieces of a burial urn.

A number of cremation burials were found, one of which contained the miniature bucket urn pictured below.

A black basalt urn will be much, much heavier than a cut crystal vase.

His son, GEORG ADOLF ERMAN (1806-1877), was born in Berlin on the 12th of May 1806, and after studying natural science at Berlin and Konigsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey round the world, an account of which he published in Reise urn die Erde durch Nordasien and die beiden Ozeane (1833-1848).

He died at Frascati on the 13th of July 1807, and was buried in the Grotte Vaticane of St Peter's in an urn bearing the title of "Henry IX."; he is also commemorated in Canova's wellknown monument to the Royal Stuarts (see James).

The urn is reputed to contain a set of burnt bails symbolizing " the ashes of English cricket ".

This type of hearse is a motorcycle with a special sidecar built to carry a casket or an urn.

Another was a funeral urn for a Great Dane 's ashes.

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The usherette used to serve tea from an urn during the interval.

A Talavera vase, urn or platter set on a stand will look beautiful on a shelf or side table.

This will allow your child to physically have the animal placed in an urn and either buried nearby (again check with local laws), or kept in a special place at home or in the yard.

Do I want something traditional like a pet grave marker or urn?

It can be difficult sometimes though to choose the words to have engraved onto a memorial marker or urn because it's so personal.

One of the coolest and most Zen like water fountains is an overflowing urn also known as a bubbling ceramic or ceramic bubbler fountain.

Center your urn over the reservoir so that the water falls directly into the pool below.