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Definition of Perch

1. Verb. Sit, as on a branch. "There perch some big birds in the tree"; "The birds perched high in the tree"

2. Noun. Support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird).

3. Verb. To come to rest, settle. "Misfortune lighted upon him"

4. Noun. A linear measure of 16.5 feet.

5. Verb. Cause to perch or sit. "They perch their rifles on the cabinet"; "She perched her hat on her head"

6. Noun. A square rod of land.

7. Noun. An elevated place serving as a seat.

8. Noun. Any of numerous fishes of America and Europe.

9. Noun. Spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes.

10. Noun. Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes.

Definition of Perch

1. n. 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. n. 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.

3. v. i. To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.

4. v. t. To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

Definition of Perch

1. Noun. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus ''Perca''. ¹

2. Noun. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family ''Percidae''. ¹

3. Noun. Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper. ¹

4. Noun. a rod, staff, or branch of a tree etc used as a roost by a bird ¹

5. Noun. a position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated ¹

6. Noun. (dated) a linear measure of 5½ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¼ chain; the related square measure ¹

7. Noun. a cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet ¹

8. Noun. (textiles) a frame used to examine cloth ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive) To rest on (or as if on) a perch; to roost. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position. ¹

11. Verb. (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch. ¹

12. Verb. (transitive intransitive textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perch

1. to sit or rest on an elevated place [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Perch

1. 1. Any fresh water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, or Americana), and the European perch (P. Fluviatilis). 2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches. Black perch. The black bass. The flasher. 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. Origin: OE. Perche, F. Perche, L. Perca, fr. Gr.; cf. Dark-coloured, Skr. Pni spotted, speckled, and E. Freckle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perch

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Literary usage of Perch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1873)
"... which is the northerly corner boundary of the town of Colchester; thence running south 36 degrees 45 mints east 292 perch to the intersection of a line, ..."

2. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Edward Fitzgibbon (1854)
"The good old father of us all— Izaak of venerated memory—hath well and truly written in the preceding chapter of the perch. I wish he had left out the ..."

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