2. Verb. (third-person singular of rear) ¹
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Definition of Rears
1. rear [v] - See also: rear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rears
Literary usage of Rears
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Francis Vesey (1827)
"... rears of rents, and costs, was ascertained by affidavit, rC^" instead of a
reference. . „ SMITH ». CLARKE. WEST. JaI;/ it/,, \i\tfi. object of the bill ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Or, in the now declining year, When bounteous Autumn rears his head, And clust'ring
grapes with purple spread. The fairest of his fruit he serves, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"... pounds to the dauntless preservers of the most valuable lives our island rears.
People of England, why should you pay Louis Philippe's garter expenses ? ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... and adversely against them for more than 20 rears. [Ed. Note.—For other cases,
see Adverse Possession, Cent Dig. | 603; Dec. Dig. { 105. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... in his beautiful reminiscences (' Dal Libro dei Ricordi'), writes thus of his
dear home at the foot of the slope where the Parthenon rears its sacred ..."