stool

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. 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.
2. n. The seat of a bishop; a see.
3. n. Same as ducking-stool.
4. n. The seat used in easing the bowels; hence, a fecal evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
5. n. A frame for tapestry-work.
6. n. 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.
7. n. The mother plant from which young plants are propagated by the process of layering.
8. n. Nautical: A small channel in the side of a vessel for the deadeyes of the backstays.
9. n. An ornamental block placed over the stem to support a poop-lantern.
10. n. 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.
11. n. Hence A stool-pigeon; also, a decoy-duck.
12. n. Material spread on the bottom for oysterspat to cling to; set, either natural or artificial. See Cultch.
13. n. (See also camp-stool, footstool, night-stool, piano-stool.)
14. To throw up shoots from the root, as a grass or a grain-plant; form a stool. See stool, n., 6.
15. To decoy duck or other fowl by means of stools.
16. To be decoyed; respond to a decoy.
17. To evacuate the bowels.
18. To plow; cultivate.
19. n. 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. n. In iron ship-building, a small foundation or seating for the support of some part of the machinery, as the shaft-bearings, pumps, etc.

Wiktionary

1. n. A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
2. n. A footstool.
3. n. Feces; excrement.
4. n. A decoy.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

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