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stablished by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.

fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. [Written also conner.]

Mood; humor. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Shak.

The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also doré. See Pike perch.

The European perch when two years old. [Prov. Eng.]

Any fish of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also called darter. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of North America. About seventy species are known. See Darter.

A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.

An American fresh-water fish; the log perch.

n etching glass, and is preserved only in vessels of platinum, lead, caoutchouc, or gutta-percha.

A perchlorate. [Obs.]

Perchloric; as, hyperoxymuriatic acid. [Obs.]

An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.

Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.

A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.

A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.

An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.C5H8 -- unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons

To perch on anything, as birds do. [Obs.]

A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta- percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.

To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. [The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. Sir. J. Davies. On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. Tennyson.