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Stool

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Noun

1. stool

a simple seat without a back or arms

2. bm, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool

solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

3. stool

(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

4. can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet

a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Verb

5. stool

lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

6. stool

react to a decoy, of wildfowl

7. stool, tiller

grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

8. ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit

have a bowel movement

Example Sentences:
'The dog had made in the flower beds'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Stool

see synonyms of stool
noun
1. 
a backless seat or footrest consisting of a small flat piece of wood, etc, resting on three or four legs, a pedestal, etc
2. 
a rootstock or base of a plant, usually a woody plant, from which shoots, etc, are produced
3. 
a cluster of shoots growing from such a base
4. mainly US
a decoy used in hunting
5. 
waste matter evacuated from the bowels
6. 
a lavatory seat
7. 
(in W Africa, esp Ghana) a chief's throne
8.  fall between two stools
verb (intransitive)
9. 
(of a plant) to send up shoots from the base of the stem, rootstock, etc
10. 
to lure wildfowl with a decoy

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Stool

see synonyms of stool
noun
1. 
a. 
a single seat having three or four legs and no back or arms
b. 
footstool
2. 
the inside ledge at the bottom of a window
3. 
a toilet, or water closet
4. 
the fecal matter eliminated in a single bowel movement
5. 
a. 
a root or tree stump sending out shoots
b. 
a cluster of such shoots
6.  US
a. 
a perch to which a bird is fastened as a decoy for others
b. 
a bird or other object used as a decoy
verb intransitive
7. 
to put out shoots in the form of a stool
8.  US, Informal
to act as a stool pigeon, or informer

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Stool

see synonyms of stool
n.
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. Evacuated fecal matter.
5. Botany
a. A stump or rootstock that produces shoots or suckers.
b. A shoot or growth from such a stump or rootstock.
intr.v. stooled, stool·ing, stools
1. Botany To send up shoots or suckers.
2. To evacuate the bowels; defecate.
3. Slang To act as a stool pigeon.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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