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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
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Noun:
- anatomy The buttocks, a creature's bottom
- military Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
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Verb:
- transitive|obsolete To lift and take up.
- transitive|obsolete To rouse; to strip up.
- intransitive To rise up on the hind legs, as a bolting horse.
- transitive To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing).
- transitive To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- transitive To construct by building; to set up; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
- transitive To raise physically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- transitive To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- vulgar|British To sodomize perform anal sex
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