Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stool"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stool \Stool\, n. [L. stolo. See {Stolon}.] (Hort.)
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its
branches into the soil. --P. Henderson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stool \Stool\, v. i. (Agric.)
To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. --R. D.
Blackmore.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stool \Stool\, n. [AS. st[=o]l a seat; akin to OFries. & OS.
st[=o]l, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st[=o]ll, Sw.
& Dan. stol, Goth. st[=o]ls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ.
stol'; from the root of E. stand. [root]163. See {Stand}, and
cf. {Fauteuil}.]
1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back,
made in various forms for various uses.
2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an
evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]
4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the
dead-eyes of the backstays. --Totten.
5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. --J. P. Peters.
6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a
footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom
for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]
{Stool of a window}, or {Window stool} (Arch.), the flat
piece upon which the window shuts down, and which
corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States,
the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual
sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window
seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.
{Stool of repentance}, the cuttystool. [Scot.]
{Stool pigeon}, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others
within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stool
n 1: a simple seat without a back or arms
2: solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: {fecal
matter}, {faecal matter}, {feces}, {faeces}, {BM}, {ordure},
{dejection}]
3: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: {toilet},
{can}, {commode}, {crapper}, {pot}, {potty}, {throne}]
v 1: lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
2: react to a decoy, of wildfowl
3: grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers [syn: {tiller}]
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