Lexic.us

Definition of Rearing

1. Adjective. Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile. "A lion rampant"

2. Noun. The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child.

3. Noun. Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community. "They debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

Definition of Rearing

1. Verb. (present participle of rear) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rearing

1. rear [v] - See also: rear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rearing

rearchitects reard reards reared reared up rearer rearers rearguard rearguards reargue

reargued reargues rearguing reargument rearguments rearing (current term) rearing up rearise rearisen rearises

rearising rearly rearm rearmament rearmaments rearmed rearmice rearming rearmouse

Literary usage of Rearing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1851)
"Domestic Fowl; their Natural History, Breeding, rearing, and General Management. ... A Treatise on the Breeding, rearing, and Fattening of Poultry. ..."

2. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"The rearing of wild birds has now become quite an industry. ... The artificial rearing of birds settles the question of the preservation of any species of ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"... forthcoming paper in the ' Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science' these differences will be detailed. I only succeeded in rearing the larva- of E. ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"... Natural History of the Silk-Worm is given, but the best system of rearing silk and cultivating the Mulberry in our colonies and islands is explained. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1904)
"On rearing the later stages of Echinoid Larvae. By L. DONCASTER, BA, King's College. [Read 24 November 1902.] In working at the development of Echinoids the ..."

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