1. A backless and armless single seat supported on legs or a pedestal.
2. A low bench or support for the feet or knees in sitting or kneeling, as a footrest.
3. A toilet seat; a commode.
4. fecal matter from a single bowel movement.
5. botany A stump or rootstock that produces shoots or suckers.
6. botany A shoot or growth from such a stump or rootstock.
7. botany to send up shoots or suckers.
8. to evacuate the bowels; defecate.
9. slang to act as a stool pigeon.

1. A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
2. A footstool.
3. feces; excrement.
4. A decoy.
5. A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
6. (literally and figuratively) throne.
7. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
8. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
9. material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

1. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
2. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
3. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
4. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
5. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
6. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
7. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool.
8. material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
9. to ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

1. to throw up shoots from the root, as a grass or a grain-plant; form a stool. see stool, n., 6.
2. to decoy duck or other fowl by means of stools.
3. to be decoyed; respond to a decoy.
4. to evacuate the bowels.
5. to plow; cultivate.
6. A seat or chair; now, in particular, a seat, whether high or low, consisting of a piece of wood mounted usually on three or four legs, and without a back, intended for one person; also, any support of like construction used as a rest for the feet, or for the knees when kneeling.
7. the seat of a bishop; a see.
8. same as ducking-stool.
9. the seat used in easing the bowels; hence, a fecal evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
10. A frame for tapestry-work.
11. the root or stump of a timber-tree, or of a bush, cane, grass, etc., which throws up shoots; also, the cluster of shoots thus produced.
12. the mother plant from which young plants are propagated by the process of layering.
13. nautical: A small channel in the side of a vessel for the deadeyes of the backstays.
14. an ornamental block placed over the stem to support a poop-lantern.
15. A movable pole or perch to which a pigeon is fastened as a lure or decoy for wild birds. see the extract under stool-pigeon, 1.
16. hence A stool-pigeon; also, a decoy-duck.
17. material spread on the bottom for oysterspat to cling to; set, either natural or artificial. see Cultch.
18. (see also camp-stool, footstool, night-stool, piano-stool.)
19. in wooden ships, one of the pieces of plank bolted to the quarters for the purpose of forming and erecting the galleries; also, one of the ornamental blocks for the poop lanterns to stand on abaft.
20. in iron ship-building, a small foundation or seating for the support of some part of the machinery, as the shaft-bearings, pumps, etc.

1. a simple seat without a back or arms
2. react to a decoy, of wildfowl
3. (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
4. grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
5. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
6. have a bowel movement
7. lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
8. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels