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Webster 1913 Edition
Stool
Stool
,Noun.
[L.
stolo
. See Stolon
.] (Hort.)
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
P. Henderson.
Stool
,Verb.
I.
(Agric.)
To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
R. D. Blackmore.
Stool
,Noun.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Stool
STOOL
,Noun.
1.
A seat without a back; a little form consisting of a board with three or four legs, intended as a set for one person.2.
The seat used in evacuating the contents of the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.3.
[L.] A sucker; a shoot from the bottom of the stem or the root of a plant.Stool of repentance, in Scotland, an elevated seat in the church, on which persons sit as a punishment for fornication and adultery.
STOOL
,Verb.
I.