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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Stool

Stōol, n.

noun

n. [A-S., O. Sax., & O. Fries. stōl, L. Ger. stool, D. stoel, Icel. stōll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. stols, O. H. Ger. stuol, N. H. Ger. stuhl, Slav. stol, allied to N. H. Ger. stellen, O. H. Ger. stellan, stalian, to put, set, place.]

  1. A seat without a back; a little form consisting of a board with three or four legs, intended as a seat for one person. Watts.
  2. The seat used in evacuating the contents of 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 back-stays. Totten.

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. — Stool of repentance, an elevated seat in the church, on which persons sit, as a punishment for fornication and adultery; the cutty-stool. [Scot.] Johnson.

Stōol, n.

noun

n. [Lat. stolo. See STOLE, 2, and STOLON.] The root or stem of a tree or plant, cut off near the ground, from which shoots spring up; also, the set of shoots thus produced; as, a stool of raspberry plants.

Stōol, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [See STOOL, supra.] (Agric.) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.