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- Perch - n. - 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, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).
- Perch - n. - 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.
- Perch - 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.
- Perch - n. - A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.
- Perch - n. - In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.
- Perch - n. - In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.
- Perch - n. - A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- Perch - v. i. - To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
- Perch - v. t. - To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
- Perch - v. t. - To occupy as a perch.
- Perchance - adv. - By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
- Perchant - n. - A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
- Perched - imp. & p. p. - of Perch
- Percher - v. i. - One who, or that which, perches.
- Percher - v. i. - One of the Insessores.
- Percher - v. i. - A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar.
- Percheron - n. - One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
- Perching - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Perch
- Perchlorate - n. - A salt of perchloric acid.
- Perchloric - a. - Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.
- Perchloride - n. - A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.
- Perchromic - a. - Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.
- Perch - n. - 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, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).
- Egling - n. - The European perch when two years old.
- Overperch - v. t. - To perch upon; to fly over.
- Zander - n. - A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant.
- Pack - v. i. - To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
- Block - v. t. - The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- Juke - v. i. - To perch on anything, as birds do.
- Zingel - n. - A small, edible, freshwater European perch (Aspro zingel), having a round, elongated body and prominent snout.
- Villiform - a. - Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
- Ruffe - n. - A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.
- Batfowling - n. - A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.
- Crow's-nest - n. - A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.
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- G2682 κατασκήνωσις - 2682 κατασκήνωσις - ΚΑΤΑΣΚΉΝΩΣΙΣ - - kataskḗnōsis - kat-as-kay'-no-sis - from κατασκηνόω; an encamping, i.e. (figuratively) a perch:--nest. - Noun Neuter - greek
- G5177 τυγχάνω - 5177 τυγχάνω - ΤΥΓΧΆΝΩ - - tynchánō - toong-khan'-o - probably for an obsolete (for which the middle voice of another alternate (to make ready or bring to pass) is used in certain tenses; akin to the base of τίκτω through the idea of effecting; properly, to affect; or (specially), to hit or light upon (as a mark to be reached), i.e. (transitively) to attain or secure an object or end, or (intransitively) to happen (as if meeting with); but in the latter application only impersonal (with εἰ), i.e. perchance; or (present participle) as adjective, usual (as if commonly met with, with οὐ, extraordinary), neuter (as adverb) perhaps; or (with another verb) as adverb, by accident (as it were):--be, chance, enjoy, little, obtain, X refresh…self, + special. Compare τύπτω. - Verb - greek