Crossword clues for perched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perch \Perch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Perched; p. pr. & vb. n. Perching.] [F. percher. See Perch a pole.] To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
Situated as if balancing above something. v
(en-past of: perch)
WordNet
Usage examples of "perched".
Yoshiko experimented for a few minutes with the hand controller, getting the feel of the thrusters, while Tessa filmed the whole process, showing the people back home the ungainly, angular LM perched atop the spent third stage booster, and Yoshiko peering out the tiny windows as she concentrated on bringing the CSM around until the docking collar at the top of the capsule pointed at the hatch on top of the LM.
The officer gestured, and the two sailors perched in the banyan branches above the pinnace put up their rifles.
Enobarbus turned to give his orders, and at that moment one of the sailors perched in the branches of the banyan to which the pinnace was moored cried out.
Batty and Carob perched on his shoulder, Batty tense and straight, Carob hunched as if in thought.
Jennet patted the sweet-smelling bedtick she was perched upon, her legs tucked under her.
Perched on a jutting eminence, and half shrouded in the bushes which clothed it, the silent fisherman took his place, while his fly was made to kiss the water in capricious evolutions, such as the experienced angler knows how to employ to beguile the wary victim from close cove, or gloomy hollow, or from beneath those decaying trunks of overthrown trees which have given his brood a shelter from immemorial time.
His full-tailed frock-coat of old-fashioned cut hung from the knob of his chair, on which was perched his billycock hat.
On his head perched a low-crowned billycock hat as evil as the rest of the rig.
To add to the incongruity of his appearance, on the top of his hair, which was still done in ridges, Zulu fashion, and decorated with long bone snuff-spoons, was perched an extremely small and rakish-looking billycock hat, and in his hand he carried his favourite and most gigantic knobstick.
It came out a whisper, hushed by an image: his bonsai, perched on pedestals outside the windows letting onto the terrace.
A gray brindled tomcat perched on the back of the seat and regarded him with a superior smirk, whiskers quivering.
Pendragon and Vicki on the sofa, Britch in his easy chair, and Agnes, in an unconsciously sexy pose, perched on the desk, and they had brainstormed for three straight hours trying to sort out a pattern in the killings, beyond the obvious one that all victims were twenty-six years old and were killed on successive days from July 10 to the present, twenty-four hours and twenty minutes apart.
I caught sight of captain Bullen perched on top of the companionway leading down from the main deck.
He had none of the moral strenuousness of the reformer, none of the exclusiveness of a man, whose purposes and ideas were consciously perched higher than those of his neighbors.
He glanced aside, nodded in salute to the watching presence of a golden eagle, perched in mantled majesty on a broken shaft of dead fir.