Emily Dickinson Lexicon

URN, n. [L. urna.]

1. A kind of vase of a roundish form, largest in the middle; used as an ornament. Cyc.
2. A vessel for water.
3. A vessel in which the ashes of the dead were formerly kept.
4. A Roman measure for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius. Cyc.