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English Dictionary: stool by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stool
n
  1. a simple seat without a back or arms
  2. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
    Synonym(s): 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
    Synonym(s): 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
    Synonym(s): stool, tiller
  4. have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
    Synonym(s): stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stool \Stool\, n. [L. stolo. See {Stolon}.] (Hort.)
      A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its
      branches into the soil. --P. Henderson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stool \Stool\, v. i. (Agric.)
      To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. --R. D.
      Blackmore.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stool \Stool\, n. [AS. st[d3]l a seat; akin to OFries. & OS.
      st[d3]l, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st[d3]ll, Sw.
      & Dan. stol, Goth. st[d3]ls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ.
      stol'; from the root of E. stand. [fb]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.
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