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"ball` (?), n. A kind of game with balls, formerly common in
England, esp. with young women.
Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play.
Chapman.
Stoom (?), v. t. [D. stommen to adulterate, to drug (wine). √163.
Cf. Stum.] To stum. [R.]
Stoop (?), n. [D. stoep.] (Arch.) 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. [U. S.]
Stoop, n. [OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. steáp, D. stoop, G.
stauf, OHG. stouph.] A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also
stoup.]
Fetch me a stoop of liquor.
Shak.
Stoop, n. [Cf. Icel. staup a knobby lump.] A post fixed in the earth.
[Prov. Eng.]
Stoop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping.] [OE.
stoupen; akin to AS. st&?;pian, OD. stuypen, Icel. stpa, Sw. stupa to
fall, to tilt. Cf 5th Steep.] 1. 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.
2. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position
of humility or subjection.
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome,
less wealthy, but more strong.
Dryden.
These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to
Rome.
Addison.
3. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. "She stoops to
conquer." Goldsmith.
Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches
exceedingly.
Bacon.
4. To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to
swoop.
The bird of Jove, stooped from his aëry tour, Two birds of gayest
plume before him drove.
Milton.