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Ern vs. Urn

Ern and Urn Definitions

Ern

A sea eagle, especially Haliaeetus albicilla of Europe.

Urn

A vase of varying size and shape, usually having a footed base or pedestal, especially a lidded vase used to hold the ashes of one who has been cremated.

Ern

Alternative spelling of erne

Urn

A closed metal vessel having a spigot and used for warming or serving tea or coffee.

Ern

To run; flow.

Urn

(Botany) The spore-bearing part of a moss capsule.
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Ern

To (cause to) coagulate; curdle (milk) by adding rennet and applying heat.

Urn

A vase with a footed base.

Ern

To stir with strong emotion; grieve; mourn.

Urn

A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

Ern

To pain; torture.

Urn

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

(of the eyes) To cause to water; smart.

Urn

(figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.

Ern

A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliæetus albicilla).

Urn

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.

Ern

To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.]

Urn

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

Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland

Urn

(transitive) To place in an urn.

Urn

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.
A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.
His scattered limbs with my dead body burn,And once more join us in the pious urn.

Urn

Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

Urn

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.

Urn

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

Urn

A tea urn. See under Tea.

Urn

To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
When horror universal shall descend,And heaven's dark concave urn all human race.

Urn

A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet

Urn

A large pot for making coffee or tea

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