PPage 129
- English Word Perception Definition An idea; a notion.
- English Word Perceptive Definition Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.
- English Word Perceptivity Definition The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.
- English Word Percesoces Definition An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.
- English Word Perch Definition 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).
- English Word Perch Definition 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.
- English Word Perch Definition 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.
- English Word Perch Definition A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.
- English Word Perch Definition In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.
- English Word Perch Definition 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.
- English Word Perch Definition A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- English Word Perch Definition To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
- English Word Perch Definition To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
- English Word Perch Definition To occupy as a perch.
- English Word Perchance Definition By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
- English Word Perchant Definition A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
- English Word Perched Definition of Perch
- English Word Percher Definition One who, or that which, perches.
- English Word Percher Definition One of the Insessores.
- English Word Percher Definition A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar.
- English Word Percheron Definition One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
- English Word Perching Definition of Perch
- English Word Perchlorate Definition A salt of perchloric acid.
- English Word Perchloric Definition Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.
- English Word Perchloride Definition A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.
- English Word Perchromic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.
- English Word Perciform Definition Pertaining to the Perciformes.
- English Word Perciformes Definition An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae); the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids (Serranidae), and some other related families.
- English Word Percipience Definition Alt. of Percipiency
- English Word Percipiency Definition The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.