A seat for one person without a back or armrests. / A footstool. / (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair. / (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.

(chiefly medicine) To produce stool: to defecate. / (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

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

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

plural of stool

Obsolete spelling of stool

plural of stoole

simple past tense and past participle of stool

present participle of stool.

(chiefly medicine) The production of stool or feces; defecation.