Perch

·vt To occupy as a perch.

II. Perch ·vt To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

III. Perch ·vi To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.

IV. Perch ·noun A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.

V. Perch ·noun A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

VI. Perch ·noun In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an Acre.

VII. Perch ·noun 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.

VIII. Perch ·noun 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.

IX. Perch ·noun 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.

X. Perch ·noun 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).