stool的意思|stool的解释-里氏词典

Stool \Stool\, n. [AS. st[=o]l a seat; akin to OFries. & OS.
st[=o]l, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st[=o]ll, Sw.
& Dan. stol, Goth. st[=o]ls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ.
stol'; from the root of E. stand. [root]163. See {Stand}, and
cf. {Fauteuil}.]
1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back,
made in various forms for various uses.

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

3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]

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

5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. --J. P. Peters.

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

7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom
for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]

{Stool of a window}, or {Window stool} (Arch.), the flat
piece upon which the window shuts down, and which
corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States,
the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual
sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window
seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.

{Stool of repentance}, the cuttystool. [Scot.]

{Stool pigeon}, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others
within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.

Stool \Stool\, n. [L. stolo. See {Stolon}.] (Hort.)
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its
branches into the soil. --P. Henderson.

Stool \Stool\, v. i. (Agric.)
To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. --R. D.
Blackmore.

He begins perched on a stool, all camp confidence - 'Let's get the big question out of the way - are you Barbara or Judy?' - but soon wallows in homosexual angst and gay initiation rites.
In the latest, a young man races around a British pub searching for a bar stool, while in the background an American baseball broadcaster excitedly describes a player running the bases.
Douglas was counted out by the referee, and remained on the canvas for several seconds before being helped to a stool where he was examined by a ringside physician.
The only other props, all painted brown, are a high desk and stool, a Windsor chair and a table that also serves as a four-poster bed.
Bill Veeck threw his wooden leg across a stool and rhapsodized here for hours. And future baseball legends, it now appears, will get a chance to become part of the lore at McCuddy's saloon.
An old-fashioned Hoover vacuum cleaner goes for $285, a faded, chipped dresser for $620 and a diner counter stool for $285. Even empty egg cartons are available at $3.60 each.
One man was found clinging to a bar stool, said state Sen. Robert Ney, whose district includes Shadyside.
Morrison returned with a bird in his hand Friday afternoon after a neighbor became a stool pigeon and turned Charlie in.
In the workshop, an older woman sits on a stool, stuffing doll legs with rattan shavings.
But, doctors eventually realized, she also altered the boy's stool and perspiration samples to make them consistent with cystic fibrosis.
Old habits die hard, which may explain why Clarence Walker occupies a stool at Western Tool and Die Works each morning when nearly all his contemporaries are deep in easy chairs.
When Gonza gets on a horse to ride, actor Koji Okamura mounts a metal stool.
Among other things, the document said a radiation survey in the control room of a reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn., found that four chairs and a stool were contaminated with cobalt-60. Two chairs were disposed of and the other furniture was decontaminated.
In another notice, all employees were ordered to report "for urine and stool testing for crabmeat."

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