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nd of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, or Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).

By chance; perhaps; peradventure.

A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.

One who, or that which, perches. J. Burroughs.

One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.

A salt of perchloric acid.

aining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.

A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.

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.

A kind of small black perch.

A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it res…

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The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.

To perch upon; to fly over. [Obs.] Shak.

The European bass (Roccus, or Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace.

To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws. J. Le Conte.

Deceit; fraud; imposition. [Obs. & R.]

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.

ome of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.