Category:Stool

Stool, n. Etym: [l. stolo. See stolon.] (hort.)

Defn: a plant from which layers are propagated by bending its Branches into the soil. P. Henderson.

Stool Stool, v. i. (agric.)

Defn: to ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.

Stool Stool, n. Etym: [as. stol a seat; akin to ofries. & os. stol, d. Stoel, g. stuhl, ohg. stuol, icel. stoll, sw. & dan. stol, goth. Stols, lith. stalas a table, russ. stol'; from the root of e. stand.
 * 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.)

Defn: 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.