(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

(Britain, dialect) early; soon

(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)

Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost

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

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

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.

simple past tense and past participle of rear

present participle of rear

Act of raising young.