Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-AP-PEAR-ING, ppr.

Appearing again.

RE-AP-PLI-CA'TION, n. [See Reapply.]

A second application.

RE-AP-PLY', v.t. [or v. i.; re and apply.]

To apply again.

RE-AP-PLY'ING, ppr.

Applying again.

RE-AP-POINT', v.t.

To appoint again.

RE-AP-POINT'ED, pp.

Appointed again.

RE-AP-POINT'ING, ppr.

Appointing again.

RE-AP-POINT'MENT, n.

A second appointment.

RE-AP-POR-TION, v.t.

To apportion again.

RE-AP-POR-TION-ED, pp.

Apportioned again.

RE-AP-POR-TION-ING, ppr.

Apportioning again.

RE-AP-POR-TION-MENT, n.

A second apportionment. – Madison.

REAR, a. [Sax. hrere.]

1. Little cooked; raw; rare; not well roasted or boiled.
2. [Sax. aræran, to hasten; hreran, to excite.] Early. [A provincial word.]

REAR, n. [Fr. arriere; but this is compound; Arm. refr, rever, reor, the seat, the fundament; W. rhêv, something thick, a bundle; rhevyr, the fundament. Rear is contracted from rever. Class Rb.]

1. In a general sense, that which is behind or backward appropriately, the part of an army which is behind the other, either when standing on parade or when marching also, the part of a fleet which is behind the other. It is opposed to front or van. Bring up the rear.
2. The last class; the last in order. Coins I place in the rear. – Peacham. In the rear, behind the rest; backward, or in the last class. In this phrase, rear signifies the part or place behind.

REAR, v.t. [Sax. ræran, reran, aræran, to erect, to excite, to hasten; hreran, to excite; Sw. röra, to move; Dan. rörer, to move, stir, shake; rörig, quick, lively, rising in the stomach.]

1. To raise. Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank / Your tribes? – Milton.
2. To lift after a fall. In adoration at his feet I fell / Submiss; he rear'd me. – Milton.
3. To bring up or to raise to maturity, as young; as, to rear a numerous offspring. – Thomson.
4. To educate; to instruct. He wants a father to protect his youth, / And rear him up to virtue. – Southern.
5. To exalt; to elevate. Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, / Softens the high, and rears the abject mind. – Prior.
6. To rouse; to stir up. And seeks the tusky boar to rear. – Dryden.
7. To raise; to breed; as cattle. – Harte.
8. To achieve; to obtain. – Spenser. To rear the steps, to ascend; to move upward. – Milton.

REAR-AD'MI-RAL, n. [See ADMIRAL.]

REAR-ED, pp.

Raised; lifted; brought up; educated; elevated.

REAR-GUARD, n.

The body of an army that marches in the rear of the main body protect it.

REAR-ING, ppr.

Raising; educating; elevating.

REAR-LINE, n.

The line in the rear of an army.

REAR-MOUSE, n. [Sax. hrere-mus.]

The leather-winged bat. – Shak. Abbot.

REAR-RANK, n.

The rank of a body of troops which is in the rear.

REAR-WARD, n. [from rear. See Rereward.]

1. The last troop; the rear-guard.
2. The end; the tail; the train behind. – Shak.
3. The latter part. – Shak.

RE-AS-CEND, v.i. [re and ascend.]

To rise, mount or climb again. – Milton. Spenser.

RE-AS-CEND', v.t.

To mount or ascend again. He mounts aloft and reascends the skies. – Addison.