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.Underdone; nearly raw; rare: formerly said of eggs, now (in the United States, in the form rare) of meats. Compare rear-boiled, rear-roasted.n. The space behind or at the back; a tract or a position lying backward; the background of a situation or a point of view.n. The back or hinder part; that part of anything which is placed or comes last in order or in position.n. 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.To send to or place in the rear.To move; stir.To carve: applied to the carving of geese.Same as rare.n. 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.
