Bishop-stool :: Bishop-stool (n.) A bishop's seat or see.

Close-stool :: Close-stool (n.) A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover..

Cucking Stool :: Cucking stool () A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool..

Cuttystool :: Cuttystool (n.) A low stoo.

Cuttystool :: Cuttystool (n.) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister..

Etoolin :: Etoolin (n.) A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll..

Faldstool :: Faldstool (n.) A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church..

Footstool :: Footstool (n.) A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.

Freedstool :: Freedstool (n.) See Fridstol.

Frithstool :: Frithstool (n.) A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary..

Heeltool :: Heeltool (n.) A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end..

Stool :: Stook (v. t.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

Stool :: Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

Stool :: Stool (n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool..

Stoolball :: Stool (n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to..

Toadstool :: Toadstool (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter..

Tool :: Tool (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work..

Tool :: Tool (n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.

Tool :: Tool (n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service..

Tool :: Tool (n.) A weapon.

Tool :: Tool (n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes..

Tool :: Tool (v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool..

Tool :: Tool (v. t.) To drive, as a coach..

Tool-post :: Tool-post (n.) Alt. of Tool-stoc.

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