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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stool \Stool\, n. [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.)
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its
branches into the soil. --P. Henderson.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stool \Stool\, v. i. (Agric.)
To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. --R. D.
Blackmore.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an
evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
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3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]
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4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the
dead-eyes of the backstays. --Totten.
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5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. --J. P. Peters.
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6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a
footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
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7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom
for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]
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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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WordNet Stool
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, 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, 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: tiller]
4: have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
[syn: defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca,
crap, make]

Moby Dictionary
BM , babble , be indiscreet , be unguarded , bear witness against ,
bedpan , betray , betray a confidence , betrayer , blab , blabber ,
bloody flux , blow the whistle , blurt , blurt out , bowel movement ,
buffalo chips , ca-ca , can , canary , catharsis , chamber , chamber pot ,
chemical closet , chemical toilet , commode , coprolite , coprolith ,
cow chips , cow flops , cow pats , crap , crapper , defecate ,
defecation , dejection , diarrhea , dingleberry , droppings , dung ,
dysentery , evacuate , evacuation , feces , feculence , fink , flux ,
give away , guano , inform , inform against , inform on , jakes , jerry ,
john , johnny , jordan , latrine , leak , let drop , let fall , let slip ,
lientery , loose bowels , manure , movement , narc , nark , night soil ,
number two , ordure , peach , pimp , piss pot , potty , potty-chair ,
purgation , purge , rat , reveal a secret , runs , sell out , sewage ,
sewerage , shit , shits , sing , snitch , snitch on , spill ,
spill the beans , squeak , squeal , squealer , stool pigeon ,
take a shit , talk , tattle , tattle on , tell on , tell secrets ,
tell tales , testify against , throne , thunder mug , tipster , toilet ,
trots , turd , turistas , turn informer , urinal , void , voidance ,
water closet