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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

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, stool, 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, stool, throne]


VERB (4)

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: stool, tiller]

4. have a bowel movement;
- Example: "The dog had made in the flower beds"
[syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stool \Stool\, n. [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. --P. Henderson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stool \Stool\, v. i. (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. --R. D. Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels. [1913 Webster] 3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] 4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. --Totten. [1913 Webster] 5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. --J. P. Peters. [1913 Webster] 6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool. [1913 Webster] 7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, stool, 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, stool, 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: stool, tiller] 4: have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]