support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) a linear measure of 16.5 feet a square rod of land an elevated place serving as a seat any of numerous fishes of America and Europe spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes sit, as on a branch
"The birds perched high in the tree" to come to rest, settle
"Misfortune lighted upon him" cause to perch or sit
