rear

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A hind part.
• noun The point or area farthest from the front.
• noun The part of a military deployment usually farthest from the fighting front.
• noun Informal The buttocks.
• adjective Of, at, or located in the rear.
• intransitive verb To care for (children or a child) during the early stages of life; bring up.
• intransitive verb To tend (growing plants or animals).
• intransitive verb To build; erect.
• intransitive verb Archaic To lift upright; raise.
• intransitive verb To rise on the hind legs, as a horse.
• intransitive verb To rise high in the air; tower.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Underdone; nearly raw; rare: formerly said of eggs, now (in the United States, in the form rare) of meats. Compare rear-boiled, rear-roasted.
• To move; stir.
• To carve: applied to the carving of geese.
• To send to or place in the rear.
• noun The space behind or at the back; a tract or a position lying backward; the background of a situation or a point of view.
• noun The back or hinder part; that part of anything which is placed or comes last in order or in position.
• noun In specific military use, the hindmost body of an army or a fleet; the corps, regiment, squadron, or other division which moves or is placed last in order: opposed to van: as, the rear was widely separated from the main body.
• Pertaining to or situated in the rear; hindermost; last: as, the rear rank.
• Same as rare.
• noun The up-stream end of a drive. The logs may be either stranded or floating: in the former case they are termed dry rear; in the latter floating rear.
• To raise, lift, or hoist by or as if by main strength; bring to or place in an elevated position; set or hold up; elevate; bear aloft.
• To form by raising or setting up the parts of; lift up and fix in place the materials of; erect; construct; build.
• To raise from a prostrate state or position; uplift; exalt.
• To lift or carry upward; give an upward bent or turn to.
• To cause to rise into view; approach (an object) so that it appears above the visible horizon. See raise, 10.
• To carry off, as by conquest; take away by or as if by lifting; wrest. See raise, 6.
• To cause to rise to action; stir up; rouse.
• To raise in amount; make a rise in; increase.
• To develop or train physically or mentally or both, as young; care for while growing up; foster; nurture; educate: used of human beings, and less frequently of animals and plants. See raise.
• To mock; gibe.
• Synonyms Bring up, etc. See raise.
• To rise up; assume an elevated posture, as a horse or other animal in standing on its hind legs alone.
• To rise up before the plow, as a furrow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adverb Prov. Eng. Early; soon.
• noun The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
• noun Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• intransitive verb To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
• intransitive verb a bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting his head when rearing.
• adjective Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• adjective an officer in the navy, next in rank below a vice admiral and above a commodore. See Admiral.
• adjective (Mil.) the rear rank of a body of troops when faced about and standing in that position.
• adjective (Mil.) the division of an army that marches in the rear of the main body to protect it; -- used also figuratively.
• adjective (Mil.) the line in the rear of an army.
• adjective (Mil.) the rank or line of a body of troops which is in the rear, or last in order.
• adjective (Firearms) the sight nearest the breech.
• adjective to come last or behind.
• transitive verb To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate.
• transitive verb To erect by building; to set up; to construct
• transitive verb Obs. or R. To lift and take up.