Stool — Defs

01 n. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

1.
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.(Hort.)

02 v. i. To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

1.
To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.(Agric.)

03 n. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

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.
A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.(Naut.)
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.]

Phrases & compounds

Stool of a window — 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.

Stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.