A Quick and Simple Dictionary

rear

1. Adjective.  Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
2. Adverb.  (British, dialect) early; soon.
3. Noun.  The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
4. Noun.  (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
5. Noun.  (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
6. Verb.  (transitive, vulgar) To sodomize (gloss, perform anal sex) .
7. Verb.  (transitive) To raise physically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
8. Verb.  (transitive) To construct by building; to set up.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
10. Verb.  (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
11. Verb.  (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
12. Verb.  (transitive) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing).
13. Verb.  (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
14. Verb.  (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs, as a bolting horse.