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rear 1

 (rîr)
n.
1. A hind part.
2. The point or area farthest from the front: the rear of the hall.
3. The part of a military deployment usually farthest from the fighting front.
4. Informal The buttocks.
adj.
Of, at, or located in the rear.
[Middle English rere, rear of an army, short for rerewarde, rear guard; see rearward2.]

rear 2

 (rîr)
v. reared, rear·ing, rears
v.tr.
1. To care for (children or a child) during the early stages of life; bring up. See Usage Note at raise.
2. To tend (growing plants or animals).
3. To build; erect.
4. Archaic To lift upright; raise.
v.intr.
1. To rise on the hind legs, as a horse.
2. To rise high in the air; tower.
[Middle English reren, to raise, from Old English rǣran; see er- in Indo-European roots.]
rear′er n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.rearing - the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a childrearing - the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
nurture, raising
upbringing - properties acquired during a person's formative years
2.rearing - helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, upbringing, breeding, raising
acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization - the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture"
Adj.1.rearing - rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile; "a lion rampant"
rampant
heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies
erect, upright, vertical - upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"
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Discovering that his martingale had more slack in it than usual, he proceeded to give an exhibition of rearing and hind-leg walking.
And just before he arrived back at the stable he capped the day with a combined whirling and rearing that
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At once they both flew to her head; but she was a match for them, and went on plunging, rearing, and kicking in a most desperate manner.
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The running of the horses that have broken loose; the snorting, stamping, and rearing of those which remain fast; the howling of dogs; the yelling of Indians; the scampering of white men, and red men, with their guns; the overturning of lodges, and trampling of fires by the horses; the flashes of the fires, lighting up forms of men and steeds dashing through the gloom, altogether make up one of the wildest scenes of confusion imaginable.
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"I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.
Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men."
The notion of rearing the Superman is only a new form of an ideal Nietzsche already had in his youth, that "THE OBJECT OF MANKIND SHOULD LIE IN ITS HIGHEST INDIVIDUALS" (or, as he writes in "Schopenhauer as Educator": "Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce great men--this and nothing else is its duty.") But the ideals he most revered in those days are no longer held to be the highest types of men.
The phrase "the rearing of the Superman," has very often been misunderstood.
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They were in search of deer, when suddenly a huge grizzly bear emerged from a thicket about thirty yards distant, rearing himself upon his hind legs with a terrific growl, and displaying a hideous array of teeth and claws.
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The work of rearing young, green Martians consists solely in teaching them to talk, and to use the weapons of warfare with which they are loaded down from the very first year of their lives.
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Time budget of turkeys (Maleagris gallopavo) reared under free-range and confinement rearing systems was recorded and compared from day old chick to sixth months of age.
Time-Budgets of Turkeys (Maleagris gallopavo) Reared Under Confinement and Free Range Rearing Systems
In free-range rearing commercial and synthetic feed products including by-products meals etc are not allowed rather birds are reared on organic food only.
FREE-RANGE REARING SYSTEM AND ITS IMPACT ON PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF POULTRY: A REVIEW

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