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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…

Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.

Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns. "Urnal interments." Sir T. Browne.

As much as an urn will hold; enough to fill an urn.

for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak.

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

ing five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.

A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.

Azure. [Obs.] Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue, and emerald green. Milton.

A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.

To mourn over. Wyclif.

A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

A stream or rivulet; a burn. My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser.