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noun

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

Stool n.

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.

5.

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

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.

verb

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

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"Stool" Quotes from Famous Books

... into an armchair, and the doctor at the same moment let himself down upon the revolving stool that was nailed to the floor in front of the desk. His hands smoothed out papers. Then he leaned forward, still holding his companion's eyes with that steady ...

— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood

... camp-stool she had on her arm, and screwed into its back her parasol with the long handle. She sat down at once and opened her box, where paper and pallet and all manner of conveniences for amateur painters were admirably arranged. "Please, please stand still," she said; "just as ...

— The Golden House • Mrs. Woods Baker

... grass," was the reply. "But my background represents an interior." "Well, hay will do as well." "Confound your jokes; a barn is a fine place to be sure for fine carpets, fine furniture, and a fine gentleman. I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll place one foot on this stool, and hide the other beneath this chair." He did so, but the figure looked all body and no legs, and the sitter refused to take ...

— Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) • Shearjashub Spooner

... into the tent which Andrews occupied in the camp on Duck River. The leader was enveloped in a woolen overcoat, and on his well-shaped head was a slouch hat of the kind generally worn by Southerners. By the dim, sickly light of the candle which sputtered on a camp stool it could be seen that he had been writing, for pen, ink and a sealed letter were spread out upon the top of a ...

— Chasing an Iron Horse - Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War • Edward Robins

... my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at ...

— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

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