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noun
- The monkfish.
- (colloquial) A monkey.
- The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
- A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
- (slang) A judge.
- (historical) A fuse for firing mines.
- (slang) Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
- (slang) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
- In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
- A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
- a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
verb
noun
- The sablefish.
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
adj
noun
noun
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
verb
noun
- Stereolepis gigas (black jewfish, Pacific jewfish)
- Glaucosoma hebraicum (West Australian dhufish, Westralian jewfish, western jewfish)
- Lateolabrax japonicus (Japanese seabass)
- Argyrosomus regius (meagre)
- Argyrosomus japonicus (silver jewfish, also known as the mulloway jewfish in eastern Australia)
- Tandanus tandanus (eel-tailed catfish, freshwater jewfish, dewfish)
- Johnius australis (bottlenose jewfish)
- Glaucosoma buergeri (Westralian jewfish)
- Epinephelus itajara (Atlantic goliath grouper, spotted jewfish)
- large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre
- large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales
noun
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A fat person.
- A group, set, or unit.
- A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A dull or lazy person.
- an awkward stupid person
- an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- a compact mass
- a large piece of something without definite shape
verb
- (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
- (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- put together indiscriminately
prefix
noun
- The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
- A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
- A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
- Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
- Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- Alternative letter-case form of Enigma.
- Any of species of Heliothis enigma of rare moths.
- Any of species of Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.
- a difficult problem
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
noun
noun
noun
noun
adj
- (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- Extending not far downward.
- (of an angle) Not steep; close to horizontal.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
- not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
- lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
verb
noun
noun
- spottail pinfish (Diplodus holbrookii),
- margate (Haemulon album),
- French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum)
- pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera),
- sailor's grunt (Haemulon parra),
- pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides),
- similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
- a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
noun
- Clarotes laticeps (widehead catfish)
- Clarias spp., including Clarias anguillaris, Clarias gariepinus, Clarias agboyiensis, Clarias leviceps
- Protopterus annectens (West African lungfish)
- Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (bagrid catfish)
- All species of Neochanna
- Heterobranchus didorsalis (African catfish)
- Channa striata (striped snakehead)
adj
noun
- The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam.
- A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
- (poetic) A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.
- a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves
noun
- A bonefish.
- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
adj
adv
verb
- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
noun
- Short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis).
- Gray bichir Polypterus senegalus.
- Any fossil fish of genus †Draconichthys.
- Gunther's boafish (Stomias affinis).
- Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus).
- Violet goby (Gobioides broussonnetii).
- Any of several long, slender fishes, of the family Stomiidae, that have a luminous barbel used to attract prey.
- Sculptured seamoth (Pegasus lancifer).
noun
noun
- popular aquarium fish
- A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.
- (video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.
- (now chiefly Ireland) A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
- (slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.
- (India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).
- A bird, the wagtail.
- A mollemoke.
- A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
- (slang) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
- A molly bolt.
verb
verb
noun
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
noun
noun
- A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
- A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
- (Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium
- (UK) Salmo trutta
- (South Africa, Namibia) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
- A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.
- mule deer of western Rocky Mountains
noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
verb
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
noun
verb
noun
noun
noun
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- an elevated place serving as a seat
- a square rod of land
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
verb
- sit, as on a branch
- cause to perch or sit
- to come to rest, settle
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
noun
- The monkfish.
- (colloquial) A monkey.
- The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
- A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
- (slang) A judge.
- (historical) A fuse for firing mines.
- (slang) Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
- (slang) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
- In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
- A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
- a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
verb
noun
- The sablefish.
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
adj
noun
noun
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
verb
noun
- Stereolepis gigas (black jewfish, Pacific jewfish)
- Glaucosoma hebraicum (West Australian dhufish, Westralian jewfish, western jewfish)
- Lateolabrax japonicus (Japanese seabass)
- Argyrosomus regius (meagre)
- Argyrosomus japonicus (silver jewfish, also known as the mulloway jewfish in eastern Australia)
- Tandanus tandanus (eel-tailed catfish, freshwater jewfish, dewfish)
- Johnius australis (bottlenose jewfish)
- Glaucosoma buergeri (Westralian jewfish)
- Epinephelus itajara (Atlantic goliath grouper, spotted jewfish)
- large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre
- large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales
noun
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A fat person.
- A group, set, or unit.
- A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A dull or lazy person.
- an awkward stupid person
- an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- a compact mass
- a large piece of something without definite shape
verb
- (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
- (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- put together indiscriminately
noun
- The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
- A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
- A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
- Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
- Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- Alternative letter-case form of Enigma.
- Any of species of Heliothis enigma of rare moths.
- Any of species of Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.
- a difficult problem
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
noun
noun
noun
noun
adj
- (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- Extending not far downward.
- (of an angle) Not steep; close to horizontal.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
- not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
- lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
verb
noun
noun
- spottail pinfish (Diplodus holbrookii),
- margate (Haemulon album),
- French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum)
- pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera),
- sailor's grunt (Haemulon parra),
- pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides),
- similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
- a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
noun
- Clarotes laticeps (widehead catfish)
- Clarias spp., including Clarias anguillaris, Clarias gariepinus, Clarias agboyiensis, Clarias leviceps
- Protopterus annectens (West African lungfish)
- Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (bagrid catfish)
- All species of Neochanna
- Heterobranchus didorsalis (African catfish)
- Channa striata (striped snakehead)
noun
- A bonefish.
- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
adj
adv
verb
- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
noun
- Short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis).
- Gray bichir Polypterus senegalus.
- Any fossil fish of genus †Draconichthys.
- Gunther's boafish (Stomias affinis).
- Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus).
- Violet goby (Gobioides broussonnetii).
- Any of several long, slender fishes, of the family Stomiidae, that have a luminous barbel used to attract prey.
- Sculptured seamoth (Pegasus lancifer).
noun
noun
- popular aquarium fish
- A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.
- (video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.
- (now chiefly Ireland) A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
- (slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.
- (India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).
- A bird, the wagtail.
- A mollemoke.
- A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
- (slang) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
- A molly bolt.
verb
noun
noun
- A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
- A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
- (Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium
- (UK) Salmo trutta
- (South Africa, Namibia) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
- A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.
- mule deer of western Rocky Mountains
noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
verb
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
noun
verb
noun
noun
noun
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- an elevated place serving as a seat
- a square rod of land
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
verb
- sit, as on a branch
- cause to perch or sit
- to come to rest, settle
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
verb
noun
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
adj
noun
- The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam.
- A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
- (poetic) A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.
- a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves