Definition of "urn" []

• A vase of varying size and shape, usually having a footed base or pedestal. (noun)
• A closed metal vessel having a spigot and used for warming or serving tea or coffee. (noun)
• Botany The spore-bearing part of a moss capsule. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The focal point of the urn is a two-headed águila or eagle."
• "While the urn is an object among others, an artifact with its own material and cultural history, it does not address the viewer in the same way as an object in a shop window."
• "An exemplary teacher of Negative Capability (a concept one can hardly resist teaching in conjunction with this poem), the urn is also the incarnation of Art, of aesthetic value determined not by its social location but by its power to dissolve all such determinations."