Urinometry
(U`ri*nom"e*try) n. The estimation of the specific gravity of urine by the urinometer.
Urinose
(U"ri*nose U"ri*nous) a. [Cf. F. urineux. See Urine.] Of or pertaining to urine, or partaking
of its qualities; having the character or odor of urine; similar to urine. Arbuthnot.
Urite
(U"rite) n. (Zoöl.) One of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen of arthropods.
Urith
(U"rith) n. The bindings of a hedge. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Urn
(Urn) n. [OE. urne, L. urna; perhaps fr. urere to burn, and sop called as being made of burnt clay
(cf. East): cf. F. urne.]
1. 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 pot, in which there was another urn.
Bp. Wilkins.
His scattered limbs with my dead body burn,
And once more join us in the pious urn.
Dryden. 2. Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
Shak. 3. (Rom. Antiq.) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine
measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.
4. (Bot.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a
theca.
5. A tea urn. See under Tea.
Urn mosses (Bot.), the order of true mosses; — so called because the capsules of many kinds are
urn- shaped.
Urn
(Urn), v. t. To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
When horror universal shall descend,
And heaven's dark concave urn all human race.
Young. Urnal
(Urn"al) a. Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns. "Urnal interments." Sir T. Browne.
Urnful
(Urn"ful) n.; pl. Urnfuls As much as an urn will hold; enough to fill an urn.
Urn-shaped
(Urn"-shaped`) a. Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.
Uro-
(U"ro-) A combining form fr. Gr. o'y^ron, urine.
Uro-
(U"ro-). A combining form from Gr. o'yra`, the tail, the caudal extremity.
Urobilin
(U`ro*bi"lin) n. [1st uro- + bile + -in.] (Physiol. Chem.) A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin,
abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.
Urocele
(U"ro*cele) n. [1st uro + Gr. tumor.] (Med.) A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation
of urine into it.
