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pl. [Etym. doubtful.] The bindings of a hedge. *ürle, s . [Etym. doubtful.] Bot.: The tare ( Vicia sativa ). urn, *urne, s . [Fr. urne , from Lat. urn a ; prob. from uro to burn, urns being used for containing the ashes of the dead.] IMG:content-0338.png:[blocks in formation] *5. A place of burial; a grave. ( Fig .) "Lay these bones in an unworthy urn." Shakesp.: Henry V., i. 2. *6. A Roman measure for liquids, containing about three gallons. One urn was four times the congius and half the amphora. II. Bot .: The spore-case of any mo belonging to the Bryaceæ. [URNMOSS.] In the urn: Unknown, undiscovered. (A reference to the urn of destiny; cf. Virg . Æn . vi. 432, Hor .: Od . III. i. 16.) "A large part of the earth is still in the urn to us." Browne: Hydriotaphia , ch. i. urn-burial, s. Anthropology: An expre ion used by Sir Thomas Browne as a sub-title to his Hydriotaphia , and employed to denote: (1) the deposition of human ashes in a cinerary urn after cremation; (2) le commonly, actual interment of a corpse in an urn. Both methods were practiced by the ancient Greeks, and afterward spread westward. The Grecian pithos , which resembled in size and shape the large oil-jars of southern Europe, was used as an urn to contain burnt human ashes; and two such jars placed mouth to mouth sometimes served as a rude coffin, and thus arranged they are not unfrequently found in the tombs of the Troad. ( Dennis : Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, vol. i., p. cvii.) ûrn, *urne, v. t. [URN, s.] To inclose in or as in an urn. [INURN.] "He will not suffer us to burn their bones, To urn their ashes." Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 1. urn-al.a. [Eng. urn; -al.] Pertaining to, resembling, or done by means of an urn; as, urnal interment. " Urnal interments and burnt relics lie not in fear of worms."-Browne: Hydriotaphia, ch. iii. urn'-ful, s. [Eng. urn, s.; -ful (l).] As much as an urn will hold.