Definitions
1.verbTo bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
2.verb(said of people towards animals) To breed and raise."The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years."
3.verbTo rise up on the hind legs"The horse was shocked, and thus reared."
4.verb(usually with "up") To get angry.
5.verbTo rise high above, tower above.
6.verbTo raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate."The monster slowly reared its head."
7.verbTo construct by building; to set up"to rear defenses or houses"
8.verbTo raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
9.verbTo lift and take up.
10.verbTo rouse; to strip up.
11.verbTo move; stir.
12.verb(of geese) To carve."Rere that goose!"
13.verb(regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)"He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead."
14.nounThe back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
15.nounSpecifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
16.nounThe buttocks, a creature's bottom
17.verbTo place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
18.verbTo sodomize (perform anal sex)