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Rereward

Rereward \Rere"ward`\ (r?r"w?rd`), n. [See Rearward.] The rear guard of an army. [Obs.]

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rereward

n. (obsolete spelling of rearward nodot=1 English) {{qualifier|in the archaic and historical military sense of ''(l en rearguard)'' and the obsolete sense of ''(l en haunches)'', ''(l en buttocks)''}}. (Middle English through the 19th century)

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In motion being each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.