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rations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools.

The part of a toolrest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

the part that supports a tool-post or a tool.

Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.

A bishop's seat or see.

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.

so a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.

A low stool [Scot.]

A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt.

A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.

See Fridstol.

s near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.] [Obs.]

A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.

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

s, formerly common in England, esp. with young women. Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play. Chapman.

A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.

A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.