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rearing
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n. Act of raising young. vb. (present participle of rear English)
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Rearing occurs when a horse or other equine "stands up" on its hind legs with the forelegs off the ground. Rearing may be linked to fright, aggression, excitement, disobedience, or pain. It is not uncommon to see stallions rearing in the wild when they ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rear \Rear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reared (r[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rearing .] [AS. r[=ae]ran to raise, rear, elevate, for r[=ae]san, causative of r[=i]san to rise. See Rise , and cf. Raise .] To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to ...
Usage examples of rearing.
We're exceptional animals in that our fathers and mothers often remain together after copulating and are both involved in rearing the resulting child.
In some bird species, such as phalaropes and Spotted Sandpipers, it's the male that does the work of incubating the eggs and rearing the chicks, while the female goes in search of another male to inseminate her again and to rear her next clutch.
Then, after kicking his hind legs high behind him and prodding the ground with his forelegs, the distraught animal tore around the enclosure like an unbroken yearling, wheeling and rearing as if Thread or some other unthinkable terror were engulfing him.
She took off with a squeal of rage, knocking Landreau aside and rearing away from the upraised clubs of the space marines.
The Mommy reared up, too, just as Jilamey, roanng commands at the rearing horse, slid off its rump, over the rails and straight into the sty, landing with a splat on his back in the muck.
Suddenly it gave a triumphant bellow and began rearing up, coming down hard to stomp at the ice with its sharp hooves.
Gino, whose Italian background was totally at odds with Catteni child rearing, had to be talked into playing it Zainal's way.
Timenth, his dragon, bugled defiance, rearing back onto his haunches and spreading his wings.
So Moreta directed M'barak to land Arith at D'say's weyr, where Kritith greeted Moreta with shining blue spinning eyes, rearing to his hindquarters and extending his wings.
All he saw was Rusty rearing on his hind legs, striking out with his forefeet at some invisible foe.
Rusty was rearing on his hind legs and striking out at some menace only he could see.
She had been an apprentice healer when she met Lobira, but when they had become espoused she had ended her studies and accompanied him to his posting at High Reaches, where she devoted herself to rearing the four children of their union.
Felessan, as likely a lad to Impress a bronze dragon as F'nor had seen in all his Turns at Searching, got along far better with his placid foster mother than he would have with Lessa had she had the rearing of him.
They flew from their perch on the sandtable and, rearing to their haunches, began to sing along with Piemur.
Ruth exclaimed, rearing back away from Ramoth's savage expression and dodging Mnementh's massive wings.