STOOL

noun a stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

2. stool ·noun a bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

3. stool ·noun a small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

4. stool ·noun a plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

5. stool ·vi to ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

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

7. stool ·noun material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

8. stool ·noun a seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

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