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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Perch \Perch\ (p[~e]rch), n. [Written also {pearch}.] [OE.
   perche, F. perche, L. perca, fr. Gr. pe`rkh; cf. perkno`s
   dark-colored, Skr. p[.r][,c]ni spotted, speckled, and E.
   freckle.] (Zo["o]l.)
   1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several
      other allied genera of the family {Percid[ae]}, as the
      common American or yellow perch ({Perca flavescens, or
      Americana}), and the European perch ({P. fluviatilis}).

   2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes
      belonging to the {Percid[ae]}, {Serranid[ae]}, and related
      families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.

   {Black perch}.
      (a) The black bass.
      (b) The flasher.
      (c) The sea bass.

   {Blue perch}, the cunner.

   {Gray perch}, the fresh-water drum.

   {Red perch}, the rosefish.

   {Red-bellied perch}, the long-eared pondfish.

   {Perch pest}, a small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of
      the perch.

   {Silver perch}, the yellowtail.

   {Stone}, or {Striped}, {perch}, the pope.

   {White perch}, the {Roccus, or Morone, Americanus}, a small
      silvery serranoid market fish of the Atlantic coast.

Perch \Perch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Perched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Perching}.] [F. percher. See {Perch} a pole.]
   To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.

         Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. --Shak.

Perch \Perch\, v. t.
   1. To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

   2. To occupy as a perch. --Milton.

Perch \Perch\, n. [F. perche, L. pertica.]
   1. 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.

            As chauntecleer among his wives all Sat on his
            perche, that was in his hall.         --Chaucer.

            Not making his high place the lawless perch Of
            winged ambitions.                     --Tennyson.

   2.
      (a) A measure of length containing five and a half yards;
          a rod, or pole.
      (b) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th
          part of an acre.
      (c) In solid measure: A mass 161/2 feet long, 1 foot in
          height, and 11/2 feet in breadth, or 243/4 cubic feet
          (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in
          measuring stonework.

   3. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring
      carriage; a reach.

资料来源 : WordNet®

perch
     n 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 [syn: {rod}, {pole}]
     3: a square rod of land [syn: {rod}, {pole}]
     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
     v 1: sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the treee"
          [syn: {roost}, {rest}]
     2: to come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him" [syn:
         {alight}, {light}]
     3: cause to perch or sit; "She perched her hat on her head"