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A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.

A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.

A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.

A compound containing a relatively large amount of carbon. [R.]

A percarbide. [Obsoles.]

Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.

Perhaps; perchance. [Obs.] Bacon.

rthern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]

proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates. [Written also hypercarburetted.]

Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.

Of or pertaining to the Lupercalia.

A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.

A bicarbonate. [Obsoles.]

Bicarbureted. [Written also supercarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.

Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.

rtion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.

A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper.

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

has overcrowed, or got the better of, rivals or competitors. -- Cock of the woods. See Capercailzie.