noun. Any of several spiny-finned freshwater fishes of the genus Perca, especially either of two edible species, the yellow perch of North America, and P. fluviatilis of Europe.

noun. Any of various similar fishes of the family Percidae, such as the walleye, or of other families, such as the white perch or the ocean perch.

noun. A rod or branch serving as a roost for a bird.

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noun. An elevated place for resting or sitting.

noun. A position that is secure, advantageous, or prominent.

noun. A pole, stick, or rod.

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noun. A linear measure equal to 5.50 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters); a rod.

noun. One square rod of land.

noun. A unit of cubic measure used in stonework, usually 16.5 feet by 1.0 foot by 1.5 feet, or 24.75 cubic feet (0.70 cubic meter).

noun. A frame on which cloth is laid for examination of quality.

intransitive verb. To alight or rest on a perch; roost.

intransitive verb. To stand, sit, or rest on an elevated place or position.

intransitive verb. To place on or as if on a perch.

intransitive verb. To lay (cloth) on a perch in order to examine it.

noun. A rod or pole; especially, a rod or pole serving as a roost for birds; anything on which birds alight and rest.

noun. Hence An elevated seat or position.

noun. A rod or pole used as a definite measure of length; a measure of length equal to 5½ yards. Perches of 7 and 8 yards have also been in local use. See pole.

noun. A square measure equal to 30¼ square yards: 160 perches make an acre.

noun. A unit of cubic measure used by stone-masons. It is usually 16½ feet by 1½ feet by 1 foot; but it varies greatly.

noun. A pole or staff set up as a beacon on a shallow place or a rock, or used to mark a channel.

noun. In vehicles: A pole connecting the fore and hind gears of a spring-carriage; the reach or bar. See cut under barouche.

noun. An elevated seat for the driver

noun. [⟨ perch, verb] The act of perching or alighting upon a place; hence, grasp; hold.

noun. Applied, with various epithets, to many fishes in Australia, none of which belong to the family Percidæ.

noun. In Australia, Coprodon longimanus.

In leather manufacturing, to soften or draw out by means of a perch. See perch, n., 9.

noun. A very common fresh-water fish of Europe, Perca fluviatilis, or one of many other species of the same family.

noun. A fish of one of various other genera or families

noun. One of the dark species of Lepomis or of Pomotis.

noun. The black sea-bass, Centropristis atrarius.

noun. One of the dark viviparous perches, as Ditrema jacksoni.

noun. The fresh-water drum, or sheepshead, Aplodinotus grunniens.

noun. The tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis.

noun. The rose-fish, Sebastes viviparus.

noun. One of several embiotocoid or viviparous perches

noun. A serranoid fish, Macquaria australasica.

noun. The black or wide-mouthed sunfish, Chænobryttus gulosus.

noun. The fresh-water drum, sheepshead, or black perch, Aplodinotus grunniens.

noun. One of several different embiotocids or viviparous perches, as Hyperprosopon argenteus, Damalichthys vacca, etc.

noun. In leather manufacturing, a frame on which a skin is stretched flat so that it may be worked smooth and soft.

noun. In textile-manuf., a frame, usually with two overhead rolls, over which cloth is drawn to be examined for imperfections.

noun. 11. In car-building, a draft-timber.

To alight or settle on a perch or elevated support, as a bird; use a perch; roost.

To alight or sit in some elevated position, as if on a perch.

To place, set, or fix on a perch or other elevated support.

To operate upon (“roughers,” or woolen cloth as taken from the looms) as follows:

transitive verb. To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

transitive verb. To occupy as a perch.