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Pronunciation : Stool
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.)
Definition : Defn: A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Stool
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.

i. (Agric.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Stool
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [AS. stol a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. stol, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. stoll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. stols, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. Fauteuil.]
Definition : 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.)

Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913