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Rear   /rɪr/   Listen
adjective
Rear  adj.  Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
Rear admiral, an officer in the navy, next in rank below a vice admiral and above a commodore. See Admiral.
Rear front (Mil.), the rear rank of a body of troops when faced about and standing in that position.
Rear guard (Mil.), the division of an army that marches in the rear of the main body to protect it; used also figuratively.
Rear line (Mil.), the line in the rear of an army.
Rear rank (Mil.), the rank or line of a body of troops which is in the rear, or last in order.
Rear sight (Firearms), the sight nearest the breech.
To bring up the rear, to come last or behind.


noun
Rear  n.  
1.
The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; opposed to front. "Nipped with the lagging rear of winter's frost."
2.
Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. "When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear."


verb
Rear  v. t.  To place in the rear; to secure the rear of. (R.)


Rear  v. t.  (past & past part. reared; pres. part. rearing)  
1.
To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith. "In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me." "It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts." "Mine (shall be) the first hand to rear her banner."
2.
To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another. "One reared a font of stone."
3.
To lift and take up. (Obs. or R.) "And having her from Trompart lightly reared, Upon his courser set the lovely load."
4.
To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. "He wants a father to protect his youth, And rear him up to virtue."
5.
To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
6.
To rouse; to stir up. (Obs.) "And seeks the tusky boar to rear."
Synonyms: To lift; elevate; erect; raise; build; establish. See the Note under Raise, 3 (c).


Rear  v. i.  To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
Rearing bit, a bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting his head when rearing.


adverb
Rear  adv.  Early; soon. (Prov. Eng.) "Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear?"





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"Rear" Quotes from Famous Books



... the force at his command to sustain the fight, he led the others quickly by a detour to the rear of the Indians, on whom he fell with such energy that the savages, believing themselves overtaken by reinforcements newly come, fled in confusion. When the victors returned to the village the unknown champion signed to the company to ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner
... tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost: there you lie, For pavement to the abject rear, o'errun ...
— Thoughts on Man - His Nature, Productions and Discoveries, Interspersed with - Some Particulars Respecting the Author • William Godwin
... first afternoon the boys crossed the swampy jungle in the rear of the old plantation and found themselves on a typical South Florida prairie. On it were oases of fire-blackened palmettos, little ponds, palmetto scrub and bits of soggy meadow, in which they often sank to their knees, as they plodded across them. There were tracks of wild animals in the ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock
... be in the rear of a saloon, or over a saloon; it may occupy a vacant store building, or a large loft. Somewhere in its immediate vicinity there is a saloon. A dance lasts about five minutes, and the interval between dances is from ten to twenty minutes. Waiters circle among the ...
— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr
... but I'll see, if you will step in?" and he ushered me into a small room at the rear of the house, a cosy but plainly-furnished little sitting-room, wherein a wood fire burned ...
— The Sign of Silence • William Le Queux


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