REARING

verb

1. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
2. (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
3. To rise up on the hind legs

verb

1. To move; stir.
2. (of geese) To carve.
3. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

verb

1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
2. To sodomize (perform anal sex)