a kind of vase, of a roundish form, but biggest in the middle, like the common pitchers; now seldom used but in the way of ornament over chimney-pieces, in buffets, &c. The great use of urns among the ancients, was to preserve the ashes of the dead after they were burnt; for which reason they were called cineraria, and urnae cinerariae, and were placed sometimes under the tombstone whereon the epitaph was cut; and sometimes in vaults in their own houses. Urns were also used at their sacrifices to put liquid things in.

URGOGALLUS. See TETRAO, ORNITHOLOGY Index.