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Traditional English :: urn
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urna.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a vase with a foot and usu. a rounded body, esp. for storing the ashes of the cremated dead or as a vessel or measure.
2 a large vessel with a tap, in which tea or coffee etc. is made or kept hot.
3 poet. anything in which a dead body or its remains are preserved, e.g. a grave. --v.urnful n. (pl. -fuls). [ME f. L urna, rel. to urceus pitcher] |
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English Idioms :: urban homesteading
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urna.html - {n.}, {informal} Renovation and occupation through cooperative ownership by tenants of previously abandoned city apartment buildings. * /Urban homesteading is on the rise in many big American cities these days./ |
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Traditional English :: ur-
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urna.html - comb. form primitive, original, earliest. [G] |
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Traditional English :: uracil
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urna.html - n.
Biochem. a pyrimidine derivative found in living tissue as a component base of RNA. [UREA + ACETIC] |
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Traditional English :: uraemia
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urna.html - n. (US uremia) Med. a morbid condition due to the presence in the blood of urinary matter normally eliminated by the kidneys. uraemic adj. [Gk ouron urine + haima blood] |
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Traditional English :: uraeus
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urna.html - n. the sacred serpent as an emblem of power represented on the head-dress of Egyptian divinities and sovereigns. [mod.L f. Gk ouraios, repr. the Egypt. word for 'cobra'] |
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