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Perch   /pərtʃ/   Listen
Perch

noun
1.
Support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird).
2.
A linear measure of 16.5 feet.  Synonyms: pole, rod.
3.
A square rod of land.  Synonyms: pole, rod.
4.
An elevated place serving as a seat.
5.
Any of numerous fishes of America and Europe.
6.
Spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes.
7.
Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes.
verb
(past & past part. perched; pres. part. perching)
1.
Sit, as on a branch.  Synonyms: rest, roost.
2.
To come to rest, settle.  Synonyms: alight, light.
3.
Cause to perch or sit.



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"Perch" Quotes from Famous Books



... taken in the Meleetas, and they are treated with much gentleness, each having a small house to itself, lined with soft down, and furnished with a perch. ...
— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)
... tired brain like the coming of darkness, and she fell into sleep—the first rest that had visited her since she learnt of Charles's arrest. But her slumber was disturbed by dreams. She dreamt that she was back in Cornwall, sitting on her old perch at the foot of the cliffs, looking at the Moon Rock. The face in the Rock was watching her, as it had always watched her, but this time with a dreadful sneer which she had never seen before. It frightened her so that she moaned and tossed uneasily, ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... afraid of fire. And when he looked down from his perch in the tree and saw, through the hole in the stranger's crown, that all was aglow inside his big, round head, Solomon couldn't help voicing his horror. He "whoo-whooed" so loudly that Tommy Fox, at the foot of the tree, asked him what on earth ...
— The Tale of Solomon Owl • Arthur Scott Bailey
... have much to say; he didn't climb up on a perch an' call her names, he just sat there by her side like they was both children together; an' then he took some of her books an' explained things she didn't understand an' pointed out things 'at other scientists didn't believe in, an' he actually said 'at he believed that after they ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason
... flatly refused by the King, who swore that no one of the House of Austria should ever perch in any part of those provinces. If Leopold did not withdraw at once, ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


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