Stool word meaning and definition

[noun] a simple seat without a back or arms
[noun] a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
[noun] solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
[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

\Stool\, n. [L. stolo. See {Stolon}.] (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. --P. Henderson.
\Stool\, v. i. (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. --R. D. Blackmore.
\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.

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