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▸ verb: (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs
▸ verb: (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
▸ verb: (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
▸ verb: (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
▸ adjective: Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
▸ adverb: (British, dialect) early; soon
▸ noun: The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
▸ noun: (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
▸ noun: (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
▸ verb: To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
▸ verb: (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
▸ verb: (transitive) To move; stir.
▸ verb: (transitive, of geese) To carve.
▸ verb: (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
▸ adjective: (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
▸ adjective: (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
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