Word Meanings - BRASSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• SPOTTEDNESS
  State or quality of being spotted.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PERCH
  1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch , and the European perch (P. fluviatilis). 2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging
• SPOTTED
  Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• PERCHLORATE
  A salt of perchloric acid.
• EUROPEAN
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels.
• PERCHROMIC
  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.
• PERCHERON
  One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• PERCHER
  A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. Bailey. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, perches. J. Burroughs. 2. One of the Insessores. 3. Etym:
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• SPOTTINESS
  The state or quality of being spotty.
• SPOTTY
  Full of spots; marked with spots.
• PERCHLORIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid , of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.
• PERCHANT
  A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
• EUROPEANIZE
  To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• GUTTA-PERCHA
  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
• SUPERCHERY
  Deceit; fraud; imposition.
• OVERPERCH
  To perch upon; to fly over. Shak.
• HYPERCHROMATISM
  The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.
• SEA PERCH
  The European bass ; -- called also sea dace. The cunner. The sea bass. The name is applied also to other species of fishes.
• SUPERCHEMICAL
  Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws. J. Le Conte.
• SUPERCHARGE
  To charge upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.
• CONCERT OF EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONCERT
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the Eastern Question.