Word Finder - rearing

definition

To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.

definition

(said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.

example

The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.

definition

To rise up on the hind legs

example

The horse was shocked, and thus reared.

definition

(usually with "up") To get angry.

definition

To rise high above, tower above.

definition

To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.

example

The monster slowly reared its head.

definition

To construct by building; to set up

example

to rear defenses or houses

definition

To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.

definition

To lift and take up.

definition

To rouse; to strip up.

definition

To move; stir.

definition

(of geese) To carve.

example

Rere that goose!

definition

(regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

example

He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead.

definition

To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

definition

To sodomize (perform anal sex)

definition

Act of raising young.

example

We studied blowfly rearings in various environmental conditions.

For the rearing of sheep Kent is one of the chief counties in England.

On these farms the cultivation of the soil and the rearing of stock go hand in hand, to the great advantage of both.

Market gardening, the rearing of cattle, for which the district is widely famed, and fishing, form the chief occupations of the rural population.

Silk-worm rearing, which is encouraged by state grants, is carried on in the valleys mentioned and on the Mediterranean coast east of Marseilles.

The rearing of live stock is of no little importance.

On the whole, the soil is not favourable for agriculture, but the rearing of cattle is carried on with much success.

Another group of sketches shows the horse galloping or rearing in violent action, in some instances in the act of trampling a fallen enemy.

Baron de Parana, on the other hand, says, "I have many relatives and friends who have large establishments for the rearing of mules, where they obtain from 400 to l000 mules in a year.

The rearing of sheep and other live-stock is one of the chief occupations followed.

My slaves occupy an inn marked with the symbol of a rearing horse.

The ewes are docile, easily handled and good milkers, capable of rearing twins.

A 12 foot high rearing horse and young male rider with arms outspread.

Of particular concern is the dog tapeworm that is found in sheep rearing areas of the country.

They are suited to rearing livestock like cattle and largely unsuited to crop growing.

However, there is currently no method for rearing sheep scab mites away from sheep.

Most importantly, how will you handle disagreements on child rearing practices?

The 22-fret neck is full sized, and the soap bar pickup is high-output and rearing to go.

Children are a popular topic for blogs, as so many people have child rearing in common.

It thereby loses the cost of rearing that number of people to adult age, and is left with a disproportionate number of children and old people.

The great extension of the dairy business has fitted in with the rearing of large numbers of swine.

The rearing of the silk-worm, especially in the lowlands, constitutes another great source of revenue, and furnishes the material for the only extensive industry of the country.

A smaller, hardier kind of cattle and large numbers of sheep are kept upon the heath-lands in the eastern provinces, which also favour the rearing of pigs and bee-culture.

With regard to the rearing of the Persian lamb, there is a prevalent idea that the skins of the unborn lamb are frequently used; this, however, is a mistake.

The experiment has been tried of rearing rare, wild, fur-bearing animals in captivity, and although climatic conditions and food have been precisely as in their natural environment, the fur has been poor in quality and bad in colour, totally unlike that taken from animals in the wild state.

They have, for instance, attained a population of millions in such severe climates as Poland and Russia; in the towns of Algeria they have succeeded so conspicuously as to bring about an outburst of anti-semitism; and in Cochin-China and Aden they succeed in rearing children and forming permanent communities.

Great attention is given to the rearing of bees and silk-worms; and the wine of the province is held in high repute throughout Spain, while some inferior kinds are sent to France to be mixed with claret.

In considering the oyster-culture in France it is necessary to distinguish the centres of production from the centres of rearing or fattening.

Among rearing districts Marennes and La Tremblade are specially celebrated on account of the extensive system of claires or oyster ponds, in which the green oysters so much prized in Paris are produced.

The hatching of eggs, whether of fresh-water or salt-water fishes, presents no serious difficulties, if suitable apparatus is employed; but the rearing of fry to an advanced stage, without serious losses, is less easy, and in the case of sea-fishes with pelagic eggs, the larvae of which are exceedingly small and tender, is still an unsolved problem, although recent work, carried out at the Plymouth laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, is at least promising.

In fresh-water culture little advantage, if any, has been found to result from artificial hatching, unless this is followed by a successful period of rearing.

The energy and money devoted to hatching operations should be diverted to the serious attempt to discover a means of rearing on a large scale the just-hatched fry of the more sedentary species to a sturdy adolescence.

The rearing of llamas and alpacas is a recognized industry in the Bolivian highlands and is wholly in the hands of the Indians, who alone seem to understand the habits and peculiarities of these interesting animals.

The remaining native tribes under the supervision of the state have made little progress, and their number is said to be decreasing (notwithstanding the favourable climatic conditions under which most of them live) because of unsanitary and intemperate habits, and for other causes not well understood, one being the custom noticed by early travellers among some of the tribes of the La Plata region of avoiding the rearing of children.

Pisciculture has been for centuries successfully pursued by the Bohemian peasants, and the attempts recently made for the rearing of silkworms have met with fair success.

There is a large agricultural trade, the locality being especially noted for the rearing of ducks; strawplaiting and the manufacture of condensed milk are carried on, and there are printing works.

Farms in tillage are comparatively small, whilst those devoted to the rearing of sheep are very large, ranging from 3000 acres to 15,000 acres and more.

The change from slave to free labour proved to be advantageous to the farmers in the western provinces; an efficient educational system, which owed its initiation to Sir John Herschel, the astronomer (who lived in Cape Colony from 1834 to 1838), was adopted; Road Boards were established and did much good work; to the staple industries - the growing of wheat, the rearing of cattle and the making of wine - was added sheepraising; and by 1846 wool became the most valuable export from the country.

The rearing of cattle and sheep was at one time the chief occupation of the inhabitants, and many of them still drive their flocks down to the Campagna di Roma for the winter months and back again in the summer, but more attention is now devoted to cultivation.

The difficulty of rearing the larvae in an aquarium towards the close of the metamorphosis may account for the slight information available concerning the stages that immediately follow the embryonic. Another difficulty is due to the fact that the types studied, and especially the crinoid Antedon, are highly specialized, so that some of the embryonic features are not really primitive as regards the class, but only as regards each particular genus.

The king himself, when rearing the new Westminster Abbey over the grave of Edward the Confessor, spent for once some of his money on a worthy object.

The blackcock then rejoins his male associates, and the female is left to perform the labours of hatching and rearing her young brood.

The rearing of cattle and the dressing of hides, the collection of rubber and bee culture are important industries.

American bee-breeders are conspicuous in this respect, extensive apiaries being exclusively devoted to the business of rearing queens by the thousand for sale and export.

In England also, some bee-keepers include queen-rearing as part of their business, while one large apiary on the south coast is exclusively devoted to the rearing of queen bees on the latest scientific system, and to breeding by selection from such races as are most suited to the exceptional climatic conditions of the country.

I am hand rearing cockatiels all during the breeding season, and have 2 being reared at present.

The first conclusion drawn from the study is the causal connection between institutional rearing and cognitive impairment.

They are rearing eight thriving cygnets, from an original nine, which we think may include four from our old Mrs Swan.

From the late fifties the mill was used just for rearing pigs, garaging farm machinery, and housing the grain drier.

Fatherhood project - Nonprofit that examines the future of fatherhood project - Nonprofit that examines the future of fatherhood and develops ways to support men's involvement in child rearing.

For advice about Hand Feeding & Rearing babies see here These 3 baby hedgehogs were found abandoned in a front garden.