Word Meanings - FOOTSTOOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to FOOTSTOOL)

• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• STOOL
  A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• SITTINE
  Of or pertaining to the family Sittidæ, or nuthatches.
• STOOLBALL
  A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women. Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play. Chapman.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• SUPPORT
  1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining. 2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind. 3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling,
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• SITTER
  1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust. 2. A bird that sits or incubates.
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• SITTING
  Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
• SUPPORTANCE
  Support. Shak.
• SITTEN
  p. p. of Sit, for sat.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• UPSITTING
  A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends. To invite your lady's upsitting. Beau. & Fl.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• UNSUPPORTABLE
  Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• PSITTACEOUS; PSITTACID
  Of or pertaining to the parrots, or the Psittaci. -- n.
• UNSITTING
  Not sitting well; unbecoming. "Unsitting words." Sir T. More.
• PSITTACI
  The order of birds which comprises the parrots.
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• CUCKING STOOL
  A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also
• TOADSTOOL
  A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.
• DOWNSITTING
  The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. Ps. cxxxix. 2.