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- English Word Stool Definition A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
- English Word Stool Definition A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
- English Word Stool Definition A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
- English Word Stool Definition A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
- English Word Stool Definition Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- English Word Stoolball Definition A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
- English Word Stoom Definition To stum.
- English Word Stoop Definition Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
- English Word Stoop Definition A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
- English Word Stoop Definition A post fixed in the earth.
- English Word Stoop Definition To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
- English Word Stoop Definition To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- English Word Stoop Definition To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- English Word Stoop Definition To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
- English Word Stoop Definition To sink when on the wing; to alight.
- English Word Stoop Definition To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
- English Word Stoop Definition To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
- English Word Stoop Definition To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- English Word Stoop Definition To degrade.
- English Word Stoop Definition The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.