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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STOOL, n. [G., a stool, a stock, a pew, a chair, the see of a bishop. This coincides with stall and still. A stool is that which is set, or a seat.
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, v.i. In agriculture, to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a simple seat without a back or arms
2: solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection]
3: (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
4: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] v
1: lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
2: react to a decoy, of wildfowl
3: grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers [syn: stool, tiller]
4: have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English st?l; akin to Old High German stuol chair, Old Church Slavic stol? seat, throne Date: before 12th century 1. a. a seat usually without back or arms supported by three or four legs or by a central pedestal b. a low bench or portable support for the feet or knees ; footstool 2. a seat used as a symbol of office or authority; also the rank, dignity, office, or rule of a chieftain 3. a. a seat used while defecating or urinating b. a discharge of fecal matter 4. a. a stump or group of stumps of a tree especially when producing suckers b. a plant crown from which shoots grow out c. a shoot or growth from a stool 5. stool pigeon 1 II. intransitive verb Date: 1770 to throw out shoots in the manner of a stool

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a seat without a back or arms, usu. for one person and consisting of a wooden slab on three or four short legs. 2 a = FOOTSTOOL. b a low bench for kneeling on. 3 (usu. in pl.) = FAECES. 4 the root or stump of a tree or plant from which the shoots spring. 5 US a decoy-bird in hunting. --v.intr. (of a plant) throw up shoots from the root. Phrases and idioms: fall between two stools fail from vacillation between two courses etc. stool-pigeon 1 a person acting as a decoy (orig. a decoy of a pigeon fixed to a stool). 2 a police informer. Etymology: OE stol f. Gmc, rel. to STAND

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stool Stool, n. [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. --P. Henderson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stool 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stools) 1. A stool is a seat with legs but no support for your arms or back. O'Brien sat on a bar stool and leaned his elbows on the counter. N-COUNT 2. If someone has fallen between two stools, they are unable to decide which of two courses of action to take and as a result they have not done either of them successfully. PHRASE: V inflects 3. Stools are the pieces of solid waste matter that are passed out of a person's body through their bowels. (mainly MEDICAL) = faeces N-COUNT: usu pl

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

stool ('obhnayim): It is not clear what the character and purpose of this stool were Septuagint has no reference to it). It seems to have been a chair of a peculiar sort upon which a woman reclined in parturition (Ex 1:16). The Hebrew word is in the dual number and primarily means "two stones." The only other place where it occurs is Jer 18:3, where it is rendered "wheels" Septuagint epi ton lithon, "on the stones"). In 2Ki 4:10, the word translated in the King James Version as "stool" (kicce') is in the Revised Version (British and American) more correctly translated "seat."

See also BIRTH-STOOL; SEAT.

Jesse L. Cotton

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Seat (without a back). 2. Discharge (from the bowels), evacuation.

Moby Thesaurus

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