(transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. / (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. / (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs

(transitive) To move; stir. / (transitive, of geese) To carve. / (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

(now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw. / (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.

Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost

(Britain, dialect) early; soon

The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order. / (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

To place in the rear; to secure the rear of. / (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex)

simple past tense and past participle of rear

present participle of rear

Act of raising young.