Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A commode or close-stool for use at night, as in a bedroom.
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Examples
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But if he wish to evacuate the bowels, let him do so upon a very narrow night-stool.
On Fistulae 2007
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BREASTPLATE-MAKER So you would pay ten minae (1) for a night-stool?
Peace 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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TRYGAEUS 'Twould be very useful as a night-stool ...
Peace 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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So you would pay ten minae [382] for a night-stool?
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Keep the night-stool and urinal ready for whenever he calls, and take it back when done with.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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For this purpose, we filled, over night, a large chest and a night-stool, with billets of wood, rubbish, stones, and other useless matters, to make them heavy, binding them up carefully with mats and ropes to give them an air of importance.
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Let me not become the night-stool of the comic poets. [
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
hernesheir commented on the word night-stool
This lidded movable names that which it is intended to safely contain.
January 29, 2013