Definition of rear

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Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..

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Cartridge :: Cartridge (n.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material..
Estrapade :: Estrapade (n.) The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously..
Stonebuck :: Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle..
Nurseryman :: Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc..
Condensation :: Condensation (n.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene..
Touchhole :: Touchhole (n.) The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge..
Base-court :: Base-court (n.) The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle..
Arrear :: Arrear (n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes..
Arear :: Arear (v. t. & i.) To raise; to set up; to stir up.
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To lift and take up.
Ballproof :: Ballproof (a.) Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.
Battle :: Battle (v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia..
Calibre :: Calibre (n.) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber..
Subcarboniferous :: Subcaliber (a.) Smaller than the caliber of a firearm.
Syne :: Syndyasmian (a.) Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
Drearihead :: Drearihead (n.) Alt. of Drearihoo.
Rear-horse :: Rear-horse (n.) A mantis.
Cascabel :: Cascabel (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.].
Ramrod :: Ramrod (n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
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