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PERCH, n. [L. perca.] A fish of the genus Perca. This fish has a deep body, very rough scales, an arched back, and prickly dorsal fins.

PERCH, n. [L. pertica.]

1. A pole; hence, a roost for fowls, which is often a pole; also, any thing on which they light.

2. A measure of length containing five yards and a half; a rod. In the popular language of America, rod is chiefly used; but rod,pole, and perch, all signifying the same thing, may be used indifferently.

PERCH, v.i. To sit or roost; as a bird.

1. To light or settle on a fixed body; as a bird.

PERCH, v.t. To place on a fixed object or perch.




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PERCH, n. [L. perca.] A fish of the genus Perca. This fish has a deep body, very rough scales, an arched back, and prickly dorsal fins.

PERCH, n. [L. pertica.]

1. A pole; hence, a roost for fowls, which is often a pole; also, any thing on which they light.

2. A measure of length containing five yards and a half; a rod. In the popular language of America, rod is chiefly used; but rod,pole, and perch, all signifying the same thing, may be used indifferently.

PERCH, v.i. To sit or roost; as a bird.

1. To light or settle on a fixed body; as a bird.

PERCH, v.t. To place on a fixed object or perch.


PERCH, n.1 [Fr. perche; L. perca; G. bars, a perch, and barsch, sharp, keen, pungent; D. baars; Sw. abbore; Dan. aborre. It would seem from the German, that this fish is named from its prickly spines, and the name allied to perk.]

The popular name of several species of a genus of acanthopterygious fishes called by naturalists Perca. They have powerful dorsal fins, with strong and sharp spines. The scales are moderately large, with the posterior edge toothed. They all feed on marine insects, and inhabit fresh water.


PERCH, n.2 [Fr. perche; L. pertica; W. perc; Arm. perchen; probably allied to the former word in the sense of sharpness, shooting or extending. See Perk.]

  1. A pole; hence, a roost for fowls, which is often a pole; also, any thing on which they light.
  2. A measure of length containing five yards and a half; a rod. In the popular language of America, rod is chiefly used; but rod, pole, and perch, all signifying the same thing, may be used indifferently.

PERCH, v.i.

  1. To sit or roost; as a bird.
  2. To light or settle on a fixed body; as a bird.

PERCH, v.t.

To place on a fixed object or perch. – More.


Perch
  1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, or Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).
  2. A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.

    As chauntecleer among his wives all
    Sat on his perche, that was in his hall.
    Chaucer.

    Not making his high place the lawless perch
    Of winged ambitions.
    Tennyson.

  3. To alight or settle, as a bird] to sit or roost.

    Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Shak.

  4. To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
  5. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidæ, Serranidæ, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.

    Black perch. (a) The black bass. (b) The flasher. (c) The sea bass. -- Blue perch, the cunner. -- Gray perch, the fresh-water drum. -- Red perch, the rosefish. -- Red-bellied perch, the long- eared pondfish. -- Perch pest, a small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of the perch. -- Silver perch, the yellowtail. -- Stone, or Striped, perch, the pope. -- White perch, the Roccus, or Morone, Americanus, a small silvery serranoid market fish of the Atlantic coast.

  6. A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.

    (b)
  7. To occupy as a perch.

    Milton.
  8. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
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Perch

PERCH, noun [Latin perca.] A fish of the genus Perca. This fish has a deep body, very rough scales, an arched back, and prickly dorsal fins.

PERCH, noun [Latin pertica.]

1. A pole; hence, a roost for fowls, which is often a pole; also, any thing on which they light.

2. A measure of length containing five yards and a half; a rod. In the popular language of America, rod is chiefly used; but rod, pole, and perch all signifying the same thing, may be used indifferently.

PERCH, verb intransitive To sit or roost; as a bird.

1. To light or settle on a fixed body; as a bird.

PERCH, verb transitive To place on a fixed object or perch

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