Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 15
Reafforest (v. t.) To convert again
into a forest, as a region of country ; to re-establish a forest after
clear-cutting or fire, etc.; -- used more often without the
hyphen.
Reafforestation (n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest.
Reagent (n.) (Chem.) A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.
Reagent (n.) A chemical agent for use in chemical reactions.
Reaggravation (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.
Reagree (v. i.) To agree again.
Reak (n.) A rush. [Obs.]
"Feeds on reaks and reeds." -- Drant.
Reak (n.) A prank. [Obs.] "They play such reaks." --
Beau. & Fl.
Real (a.) Royal; regal; kingly. [Obs.] "The blood real of Thebes." -- Chaucer.
Real (a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
Whereat I waked, and found Before mine eyes all real, as the dream Had lively shadowed. -- Milton.
Real (a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity. -- Milton.
Real (a.) Relating to things, not to persons. [Obs.]
Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business. -- Bacon.
Real (a.) (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
Real (a.) (Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
Chattels real (Law) Such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel.
Real action (Law) An action for the recovery of real property.
Real assets (Law) Lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor.
Real composition (Eccl. Law) An agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. -- Blackstone.
Real estate or Real property Lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land. -- Kent. -- Burrill.
Real presence (R. C. Ch.) The actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however
in the sense of transubstantiation.
Real servitude Called also Predial servitude (Civil Law), A burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. -- Erskine. -- Bouvier.
Syn: Actual; true; genuine; authentic.
Usage: Real, Actual. Real represents a thing to be a substantive existence; as, a real, not imaginary, occurrence. Actual refers to it as acted or performed; and, hence, when we wish to prove a thing real, we often say, "It actually exists," "It has actually been done." Thus its reality is shown by its actuality. Actual, from this reference to being acted, has recently received a new signification, namely, present; as, the actual posture of affairs; since what is now in action, or going on, has, of course, a present existence. An actual fact; a real sentiment.
For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault. -- Dryden.
Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the reality of things. -- Locke.
Real (n.) A former small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
Note: A
Real of plate (Coin) Varied in value according to the time of its coinage, from 121/2 down to 10 cents, or from 61/2 to 5 pence sterling. The
Real vellon, Or money of account, was nearly equal to five cents, or 21/2 pence sterling. In 1871 the coinage of Spain was assimilated to that of the Latin Union, of which the franc is the unit. The peseta was introduced in 1868, and continued as the official currency of Spain (splitting temporarily into Nationalist and Republican pesetas during the civil war of the 1930's) until 2002. In 2002, the euro became the official currency of Spain and most other nations of the European Union.
Real (n.) A realist. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Real (adv.) Used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling].
Real (a.) Being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow [syn: real, existent] [ant: unreal].
Real (a.) No less than what is stated; worthy of the name; "the real reason"; "real war"; "a real friend"; "a real woman"; "meat and potatoes -- I call that a real meal"; "it's time he had a real job"; "it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money" [ant: unreal].
Real (a.) Not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real".
Real (a.) Capable of being treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor" [syn: real, tangible].
Real (a.) Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal, real].
Real (a.) Of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages" [ant: nominal].
Real (a.) Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, real, material] [ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial].
Real (a.) (Of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of land and buildings".
Real (a.) Coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception" -- F. A. Olafson [syn: veridical, real].
Real (n.) Any rational or irrational number [syn: real number, real].
Real (n.) The basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos.
Real (n.) An old small silver Spanish coin.
Real (a.) Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to virtual in any of its jargon senses.
Real () Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to virtual in any of its jargon senses.
Real () Real number. [{Jargon File}] (1997-03-12)
REAL () A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification.
Real security, Therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2 Atk. 806; S. C. 2 Ves. sen. 547.
REAL () In the civil law, real has not the same meaning as it has in the common law. There it signifies what relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a real injury is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal in the common law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.
Real -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 3047
Housing Units (2000): 2007
Land area (2000): 699.912987 sq. miles (1812.766238 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.130253 sq. miles (0.337354 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 700.043240 sq. miles (1813.103592 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.776707 N, 99.872864 W
Headwords:
Real
Real, TX
Real County
Real County, TX
Realgar (n.) (Min.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.
Realgar (n.) A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide; an important ore of arsenic.
Realism (n.) (Philos.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).
Realism (n.) (Philos.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.
Realism (n.) (Art & Lit.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
Realism (n.) The practise of assessing facts and the probabilities of the consequences of actions in an objective manner; avoidance of unrealistic or impractical beliefs or efforts. Contrasted to idealism, self-deception, overoptimism, overimaginativeness, or visionariness.
Realism (n.) The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth [syn: realism, pragmatism].
Realism (n.) The state of being actual or real; "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him" [syn: reality, realness, realism] [ant: irreality, unreality].
Realism (n.) (Philosophy) The philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived [syn: realism, naïve realism].
Realism (n.) An artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description [syn: naturalism, realism].
Realism (n.) (Philosophy) The philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names [syn: Platonism, realism].
Realism (n.) The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
Realist (n.) (Philos.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
Realist (n.) (Art. & Lit.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.
Realist (n.) A person who avoids unrealistic or impractical beliefs or efforts. Contrasted to idealist or visionary.
Realist (n.) A philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them.
Realist (n.) A person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly.
Realist (n.) A painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style.
Realistic (a.) 現實的，逼真的，現實主義的，實在論的 Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.
Realistic (a.) Aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans" [ant: {unrealistic}].
Realistic (a.) Representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" [syn: {naturalistic}, {realistic}].
Realistic (a.) Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism; "a realistic system of thought".
Realistically (adv.) 寫實地，逼真地，現實地 In a realistic manner.
Realistically (adv.) In a realistic manner; "let's look at the situation realistically" [ant: {unrealistically}].
Realistically (adv.) In a realistic manner; "the figure was realistically painted".
Realities (n. pl. ) of Reality
Reality (n.) 現實；真實 [U]；事實，實際存在的事物 [C] The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning. -- Addison.
Reality (n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
And to realities yield all her shows. -- Milton.
My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me. -- Beattie.
Reality (n.) Loyalty; devotion.
[Obs.]
To express our reality to the emperor. -- Fuller.
Reality (n.) (Law) See 2d Realty, 2.
Reality (n.) All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were" [syn: world, reality].
Reality (n.) The state of being actual or real; "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him" [syn: reality, realness, realism] [ant: irreality, unreality].
Reality (n.) The state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; "businessmen have to face harsh realities".
Reality (n.) The quality possessed by something that is real [ant: unreality].
Reality (n.) The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
Realizable (a.) Capable of being realized.
Realizable (a.) Capable of being realized; "realizable benefits of the plan".
Realizable (a.) Capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do [syn: accomplishable, achievable, doable, manageable, realizable].
Realization (n.) The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
Realization (n.) Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases" [syn: realization, realisation, recognition].
Realization (n.) Making real or giving the appearance of reality [syn: realization, realisation, actualization, actualisation].
Realization (n.) A musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer [syn: realization, realisation].
Realization (n.) A sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained [syn: realization, realisation].
Realization (n.) The completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer [syn: realization, realisation].
Realization (n.) Something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work" [syn: realization, realisation, fruition].
Realization () A UML semantic relationship between a classifier that specifies a contract and another classifier that guarantees to carry it out. [Handout by Mr. David Gillibrand]. (2007-03-15)
Realize (v. i.) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.
Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real. -- W. Irving.
Realized (imp. & p. p.) of Realize
Realizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Realize
Realize (v. t.) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain against the globe of earth. -- Glanvill.
Realize (v. t.) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. -- Jowett.
We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Realize (v. t.) To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.
Realize (v. t.) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.
Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. -- Macaulay.
Realize (v. t.) To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.
Realize (v.) Be fully aware or cognizant of [syn: recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise].
Realize (v.) Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [syn: understand, realize, realise, see].
Realize (v.) Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions" [syn: realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate].
Realize (v.) Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" [syn: gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in].
Realize (v.) Convert into cash; of goods and property [syn: realize, realise].
Realize (v.) Expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass [syn: realize, realise].
Realizer (n.) One who realizes. -- Coleridge.
Realizing (a.) Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred. -- Re"al*i`zing*ly, adv.
Reallege (v. t.) To allege again.
-- Cotgrave.
Realliance (n.) A renewed alliance.
Re-ally (v. t.) To bring together again; to compose or form anew. -- Spenser.
Really (adv.) Royally. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Really (adv.) In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.
Whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. -- Swift.
Note: Really is often used familiarly as a slight corroboration of an opinion or a declaration.
Why, really, sixty-five is somewhat old. -- Young.
Really (adv.) Apparently.
Realm (n.) A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually shone. -- Motley.
Realm (n.) Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.
Realm (n.) A domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: kingdom, land, realm].
Realm (n.) The domain ruled by a king or queen [syn: kingdom, realm].
Realm (n.) A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult" [syn: region, realm].
Realm (n.) A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt. 270; 4 Campb. 289; Rose, R. 387.
Realmless (a.) Destitute of a realm. -- Keats.
Realness (n.) The quality or condition of being real; reality.
Realness (n.) The state of being actual or real; "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him" [syn: reality, realness, realism] [ant: irreality, unreality].
Realty (n.) Royalty. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Realty (n.) Loyalty; faithfulness. [R.] -- Milton.
Realty (n.) Reality. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Realty (n.) (Law) Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.
Realty (n.) (Law) Real estate; a piece of real property.
Realty (n.) Property consisting of houses and land [syn: {real property}, {real estate}, {realty}, {immovable}].
Realty (n.) An abstract of real, as distinguished from personalty. Realty relates to lands and tenements, rents or other hereditaments. Vide Real Property.
Ream (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.
Ream (n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.]
Ream (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
Ream (n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
Printer's ream Twenty-one and a half quires. [Eng.] A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream. -- Knight.
A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream. -- Knight.
Ream (n.) A large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams".
Ream (n.) A quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20.
Ream (v.) Squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges".
Ream (v.) Remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment".
Ream (v.) Enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole".
Reamed (imp. & p. p.) of Ream
Reaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ream
Reame (n.) Realm. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Reamer (n.) One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.
Reamer (n.) A squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit [syn: reamer, juicer, juice reamer].
Reamer (n.) A drill that is used to shape or enlarge holes.
Reamputation (n.) (Surg.) The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.
Reanimate (v. t.) To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. -- Glanvill.
Reanimate (v.) Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify].
Reanimation (n.) The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
Reannex (v. t.) To annex again or anew; to reunite. "To reannex that duchy." -- Bacon.
Reannexation (n.) Act of reannexing.
Reanswer (v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. -- Shak.
Reap (v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. -- Ps. cxxvi. 5.
Reap (n.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Reaped (imp. & p. p.) of Reap
Reaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reap
Reap (v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. -- Lev. xix. 9.
Reap (v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate? -- Milton.
Reap (v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
Reap (v. t.) To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] -- Shak.
Reaping hook An implement having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.
Reap (v.) Gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn: reap, harvest, glean].
Reap (v.) Get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association" [syn: reap, draw].
Reaper (n.) One who reaps.
The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. -- Macaulay.
Reaper (n.) A reaping machine.
Reaper (n.) Someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: harvester, reaper].
Reaper (n.) Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe [syn: Grim Reaper, Reaper].
Reaper (n.) Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields [syn: harvester, reaper].
Reaper (n.) A {prowler} that removes files. A file removed in this way is said to have been “reaped”.
Reaper () A {prowler} that removes files. A file removed in this way is said to have been "reaped". [{Jargon File}]
Reapparel (v. t.) To clothe again.
Reappear (v. i.) To appear again.
Reappear (v.) Appear again; "The sores reappeared on her body"; "Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago" [syn: reappear, re-emerge].
Reappearance (n.) 再現，再發 A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
Reappearance (n.) The event of something appearing again; "the reappearance of Halley's comet".
Reappearance (n.) The act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited" [syn: {reappearance}, {return}].
Reapplication (n.) The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
Reapply (v. t. & i.) To apply again.
Reappoint (v. t.) To appoint again.
Reappointment (n.) The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.
Reapportion (v. t.) To apportion again.
Reapportion (v.) Allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" [syn: reapportion, reallocate].
Reapportionment (n.) A second or a new apportionment.
Reapportionment (n.) A new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) [syn: reallotment, reapportionment, reallocation].
Reapproach (v. i. & t.) To approach again or anew.
Rear (adv.) Early; soon. [Prov. Eng.]
Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear? -- Gay.
Rear (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
Nipped with the lagging rear of winter's frost. -- Milton.
Rear (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear. -- Milton.
Rear (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
Rear admiral, An officer in the navy, next in rank below a vice admiral and above a commodore. See Admiral.
Rear front (Mil.) The rear rank of a body of troops when faced about and standing in that position.
Rear guard (Mil.) The division of an army that marches in the rear of the main body to protect it; -- used also figuratively.
Rear line (Mil.) The line in the rear of an army.
Rear rank (Mil.) The rank or line of a body of troops which is in the rear, or last in order.
Rear sight (Firearms) The sight nearest the breech.
To bring up the rear To come last or behind.
Rear (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of. [R.]
Reared (imp. & p. p.) of Rear
Rearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rear
Rear (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me. -- Milton.
It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts. -- Barrow.
Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner. -- Ld. Lytton.
Rear (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
One reared a font of stone. -- Tennyson.
Rear (v. t.) To lift and take up. [Obs. or R.]
And having her from Trompart lightly reared, Upon his courser set the lovely load. -- Spenser.
Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
He wants a father to protect his youth, And rear him up to virtue. -- Southern.
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