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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.

1913 Definition
Stool (stool)
n.(?)
Stool
[L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.)
  1. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
    P. Henderson.
  2. To ramfy] to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
    R. D. Blackmore.
  3. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
  4. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
  5. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
    [U. S.]
  6. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
    Totten.
  7. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop- stool.
    J. P. Peters.
  8. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
  9. 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.

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