Noun
a simple seat without a back or arms

Noun
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Noun
(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

Noun
solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Verb
have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"

Verb
grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

Verb
react to a decoy, of wildfowl

Verb
lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

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n.
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

v. i.
To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

n.
A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

n.
A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

n.
A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

n.
A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

n.
A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

n.
A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

n.
Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

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Stool

Stool , n. [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.

Stool

Stool, v. i. (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.

Stool

Stool , n. [AS. st'd3l a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. st'd3l, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st'd3ll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. st'd3ls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. 'fb163. 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, ∨ 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.

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.