Stool

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

II. Stool ·noun A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

III. Stool ·noun A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

IV. Stool ·noun A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

V. Stool ·vi To Ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

VI. Stool ·noun A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

VII. Stool ·noun Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

VIII. Stool ·noun A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

IX. Stool ·noun A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.