[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.", "any place or object, as a sill, fence, branch, or twig, for a bird, animal, or person to alight or rest upon.", "a high or elevated position, resting place, or the like.", "a small, elevated seat for the driver of any of certain vehicles.", "a pole connecting the fore and hind running parts of a spring carriage or other vehicle.", "a post set up as a navigational aid on a navigational hazard or on a buoy.", "British.a linear or square rod.a measure of volume for stone, about 24 cubic feet (0.7 cubic meters).", "a linear or square rod.", "a measure of volume for stone, about 24 cubic feet (0.7 cubic meters).", "Textiles.an apparatus consisting of two vertical posts and a horizontal roller, used for inspecting cloth after it leaves the loom.", "Obsolete.any pole, rod, or the like."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to alight or rest upon a perch.", "to settle or rest in some elevated position, as if on a perch."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to set or place on or as if on a perch.", "to inspect (cloth) for defects and blemishes after it has been taken from the loom and placed upon a perch."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["any spiny-finned, freshwater food fish of the genus Perca,as P. flavescensyellow perch,of the U.S., or P. fluviatilis,of Europe.", "any of various other related, spiny-finned fishes.", "any of several embioticid fishes, as Hysterocarpus traskitule perchof California."]}]