plural of stool

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.

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.