1. [verb] (transitive) To raise physically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
2. [verb] (transitive) To construct by building; to set up
3. [verb] (transitive) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
4. [verb] (transitive) (obsolete) To lift and take up.
5. [verb] (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
6. [verb] (transitive) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing).
7. [verb] (transitive) (obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
8. [verb] (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs, as a bolting horse.
9. [verb] (transitive) To move; stir.
10. [verb] (transitive) (of geese) To carve.
11. [adjective] (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
12. [adjective] (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
13. [adjective] Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
14. [adverb] (British) (dialect) early; soon
15. [noun] The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
16. [noun] (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
17. [noun] (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom
18. [verb] To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
19. [verb] (transitive) (vulgar) (British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
20. [noun] The back of a military formation or procession; 'infantrymen were in the rear'.
21. [noun] The side of an object that is opposite its front; 'his room was toward the rear of the hotel'.
22. [noun] The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; 'he stood at the back of the stage'; 'it was hidden in the rear of the store'.
23. [noun] The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; 'he deserves a good kick in the butt'; 'are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?'.
24. [noun] The side that goes last or is not normally seen; 'he wrote the date on the back of the photograph'.
25. [verb] Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; 'The horse reared in terror'.
26. [verb] Bring up; 'raise a family'; 'bring up children'.
27. [verb] Rise up; 'The building rose before them'.
28. [verb] Cause to rise up.
29. [verb] Construct, build, or erect; 'Raise a barn'.
30. [adjective] Located in or toward the back or rear; 'the chair's rear legs'; 'the rear door of the plane'; 'on the rearward side'.
