To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
To move; stir.
Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost..
the rear rank of a company
of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
early; soon
Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear!
From Middle English reren (“to raise”), from Old English rǣran (“to raise, set upright, promote, exalt, begin, create, give rise to, excite, rouse, arouse, stir up”), from Proto-West Germanic *raiʀija...
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Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
When the fierce Foe hung on our brok'n Rear
The buttocks or bottom.