English Dictionary: urine | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Urania \U*ra"ni*a\, n. [L., from Gr. [?], i. e., the Heavenly, fr. [?] heavenly, fr. [?] heaven.] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Urine \U"rine\, n. [F. urine, L. urina; akin to urinari to plunge under water, to dive, Gr. [?] urine; cf. Skr. v[be]r water, Icel. [?]r drizzling rain, AS. w[91]r the sea.] (Physiol.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion. Note: In man, the urine is a clear, transparent fluid of an amber color and peculiar odor, with an average density of 1.02. The average amount excreted in 24 hours is from 40 to 60 ounces (about 1,200 cubic centimeters). Chemically, the urine is mainly an aqueous solution of urea, salt (sodium chloride), and uric acid, together with some hippuric acid and peculiar pigments. It usually has an acid reaction, owing to the presence of acid phosphates of soda or free uric acid. Normally, it contains about 960 parts of water to 40 parts of solid matter, and the daily average excretion is 35 grams (540 grains) of urea, 0.75 gram (11 grains) of uric acid, and 16.5 grams (260 grains) of salt. Abnormally, it may contain sugar as in diabetes, albumen as in Bright's disease, bile pigments as in jaundice, or abnormal quantities of some one or more of the normal constituents. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Urine \U"rine\, v. i. To urinate. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Urania, LA (town, FIPS 77490) Location: 31.86388 N, 92.29052 W Population (1990): 782 (313 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
URN {Uniform Resource Name} (previously Uniform/Universal Resource Number). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Urim lights (Vulg."doctrina;" LXX. "revelation"). See {THUMMIM}. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Urim, lights; fires |