Definition of "rear"

rear¹

/ɹɪɹ/

verb
third-person singular simple present rears, present participle rearing, simple past and past participle reared
1. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
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  He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.
  1694, Thomas Southerne, Isabella: Or The Fatal Marriage
2. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
3. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs
4. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
5. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
6. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
  Quotations
  In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner.
  1835, Lord Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes
7. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
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  One reared a font of stone.
  1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […]
8. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
  Quotations
  It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts.
  1700, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry...
9. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
  Quotations
  And hauing her from Trompart lightly reard, / Vpon his Courser set the louely lode,
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 19
10. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
  Quotations
  And seeks the tusky boar to rear.
  1684, John Dryden, The Second Epode of Horace

rear²

/ɹɪɹ/

adjective
not comparable
1. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
adverb
not comparable
1. (Britain, dialect) early; soon
  Quotations
  Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear!
  1714, John Gay, The Shepherd's Week
noun
plural rears
1. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
  Quotations
  Nipt with the lagging rear of winters froſt.
  1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], page 91
2. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
  Quotations
  When the fierce Foe hung on our brok'n Rear
  1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, line 78
3. (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
verb
third-person singular simple present rears, present participle rearing, simple past and past participle reared
1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
2. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex)

rear³

/ɹɪɹ/

verb
third-person singular simple present rears, present participle rearing, simple past and past participle reared
1. (transitive) To move; stir.
2. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
3. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

rear⁴

/ɹɪɹ/

adjective
comparative rearer or more rear, superlative rearest or most rear
1. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
2. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
  Quotations
  Fred ordered a rear steak along with a glass of beer as he took a seat at an empty table
  2017, Dr. Ardeshir Irani, Short Tales of the Old Wild West

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