stool

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   A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A seat for one person without a back or armrests.countableuncountable

2. 2

   A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A footstool.countableuncountable

3. 3

   A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A seat with a back; a chair.Scotlandcountabledialectal

4. 4

   A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A throne.Scotlandcountabledialectal

5. 5

   A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A royal seat; a chief's throne.AfricaWestcountable

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   A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.countableuncountable

   • The ground in almost every part of it is covered with stools or stems of Oak, at not more than three feet stool from stool, and these not having been thinned since last cutting, are completely overburdened, and are evidently killing each ot
   • With stool bedding, the plants are pruned back to the ground in the dormant season, and the shoots that form in the spring have juvenile characteristics and are called "juvenile reversion shoots." Stool bedding or stool bed layering is a co
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   A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.countabledateduncountable

8. 8

   Feces; excrement.broadlycountableuncountable

   • I provided the doctor with stool samples.
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   Feces; excrement.; A production of feces or excrement; an act of defecation, stooling.broadlycountableuncountable

   • Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed infants during the first month of life.
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    A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.countableuncountable

    • the fore backstay deadeyes and stool had to be lowered 2 feet

1. 1

   To produce stool: to defecate.

   • Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed infants during the first month of life.
   • Two days prior to the consultation, an abdominal radiograph was done because the patient hadn't stooled in a week. No signs of obstruction and no abnormal accumulations of stool were found.
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   To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

   • Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow t
   • The healthier of your two hollies is multi-stemmed, indicating that it was once stooled (cut down to a point just above the ground). It has since grown back vigorously to become a thick, wide tree which enabled it even more to overshadow th
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   To snitch, inform.datedslang

   • You can always tell a stool though, that's a fact He's got a yellow streak running down his back He doesn't have to stool He'll always get along on what he takes from blind men's cups.
   • Q: You protect us by stooling on us? A: In a sense, yes. It's a tactic. Q: Good God, some decent college functionary like yourself, in Germany, likely turned over to the Nazis his list of Jews for the greater good of the country as a whole.

syn. defecate

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   Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).alt-ofalternativerare

   • The process of layering is well known: it consists in bending a young branch […] into the soil to a certain depth, and elevating the top part of it out of the soil in an upright direction; in time the buried part takes root, and the shoot b
   • Soon after harvest, new shoots emerge from axillary buds on the stubble and give rise to the ratoon crop. Initially the young shoots are dependent upon the roots of the previous crop (stool roots) but these are replaced by new shoot roots [

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   To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

   • The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage.