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- noun Plural form of
rearing .
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Examples
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The leaps became shorter, the rearings farther apart.
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No success, so far as I know, was obtained with the rearing of the hybrid larvæ; the rearings of the larvæ of pure Gloveri were also, I think, a failure, only one correspondent having been successful; but some correspondents have not yet made the result of their experiments known to me.
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It seemed quite possible for us to get on with the other three pulling, while our demoniacal friend ornamented the occasion by plunges, rearings, and kickings.
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They straddled across the benches and barged at each other in single tourneys and jousts, riding their hobby-horses with violent rearings and plungings and bruising one another without grievous hurt and with yells of laughter.
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Several farm-lads tried and he threw them by simple buckings and rearings.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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There are turns in a kitten's play -- arched leapings and sidelong jumps, graceful rearings and grotesque dances -- which the sacred kittens of Egypt used in their time.
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Several times in succession did the two combatants repeat their rearings aloft, and the downward strokes of their horns; but it soon became evident, that the one who had been the assailant was also to be the conqueror.
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The rearings are conducted in nature on the trees in the open.
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