Bible Dictionaries
Stool

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

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

(4):

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

(5):

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

(6):

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

(7):

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

(8):

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

(9):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stool'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/stool.html. 1828.