What is the meaning of PERCH. Phrases containing PERCH
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Chicken perch is London Cockney rhyming slang for church.
Percher is British slang for a gullible person.
Peck and perch is old slang for board and lodging.
Perch is British slang for a bed.
Drop off the perch is slang for to die.
A town loafer.
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A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.
v. i.
One who, or that which, perches.
n.
A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
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n.
One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
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The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
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A salt of perchloric acid.
v. t.
To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
n.
An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.
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An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.
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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.
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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).
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Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
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The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.
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A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.
v. t.
To occupy as a perch.
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A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
v. i.
To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceae) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named.
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