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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.

1913 Definition
Perch (perch)
n.(p1913 webster dictionaryrch)
Perch
[Written also pearch.] [OE. perche, F. perche, L. perca, fr. Gr. pe`rkh; cf. perkno`s dark-colored, Skr. p***rsdot]çni spotted, speckled, and E. freckle.] (Zo***ou
  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. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.
    (b)
  5. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
  6. To alight or settle, as a bird] to sit or roost.

    Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Shak.

  7. To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
  8. To occupy as a perch.
    Milton.
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