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▪ I. rearing, vbl. n.|ˈrɪərɪŋ|
[f. rear v.1]
The action of the vb. in various senses.
1. The action of lifting up, raising, elevating, † increasing, etc.
c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. v. 1232 If ye deye in this same errour, youre rerynge ageyn shal cause you grete dolour. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 260 b, In the whiche rerynge doutlesse his handes & fete dyd rent & teare. 1549Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI, i. (Arb.) 41 Al the enhansinge and rearing goth to your priuate commoditie and wealth. Ibid. vi. 168 [The deuil] sturres men up to outragious rearyng of rentes.
2. The action of erecting, building up, etc.
In various dialects spec. the erection of the roof-timbers, putting on the roof, of a house; hence rearing-feast, rearing-supper (or simply rearing), a supper given to the workmen on this occasion. (See Rochd., Lonsd., Chesh., Linc., and Hants glossaries.)
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 99 Scipio..fforbeed þe rerynge of þe theatre in þe citee of Rome. 1535Coverdale 1 Esdras v. 62 In the rearinge vp of the house of the Lorde. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 232 Buyldyng an hous euen from the foundacion vnto the vttermost raftreyng and reirynge of the roofe. 1639MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., The rareinge of our house in Ruttinton Lane. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. App. 682 In the minster of the Holy Trinity of his own rearing.
3. The action (practice or occupation) of bringing up to or towards maturity.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. i. (Bodl. MS.), Bestes..haue redines of wytte in bredynge and reringe of here brode. 1611Cotgr., Eslevement, a rearing, breeding, or bringing up. 1681Dryden Prol. to Saunders' Tamerlane 23 He's a young plant,..But his friend swears he will be worth the rearing. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. viii. (1869) I. 83 Poverty..is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 770 The soil..is thin, and better adapted to the rearing of cotton than sugar. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds i. 263 The breeding and rearing of these charming birds. 1886Paul's Fish Culture Sept. 67 They aim at the stocking of waters rather than the rearing of fish for the table.
4.
†a. The fact of rising up. Obs.—1
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. xlvi. (Bodl. MS.), Valeis ben ischadowed bi reringe & hiȝenes of hilles.
b. The action of rising on the hind legs.
1831Youatt Horse xix. 337 Then rearing may be immediately and permanently cured by using a snaffle-bridle alone. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 262 In the frantic rearing of the horse..both horse and rider turned a somersault.
5. attrib.
a. Of animals: Being reared, intended for rearing.
1599Nottingham Rec. IV. 251, viij. olde swyne and twelve rearinge pigges. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 29 Aug. 1774 This is the same [cow] which suckled the two rearing calves. 1887in S. Chesh. Gloss. s.v., Promising well-bred rearing heifer calf.
b. Of appliances or places used in or for the rearing of animals (esp. fowls or fishes), as rearing box, rearing coop, rearing glass, rearing ground, rearing jar, rearing pond, rearing tank.
1854Zoologist XII. 4189 For rearing-glasses [for insects], I have used confectioners' show-glasses of various sizes. 1884Pall Mall G. 4 Apr. 4/2 Building hatching-houses and boxes, constructing rearing-coops and runs. 1886Paul's Fish Culture Sept. 71 Rearing grounds similar to those which are found on the coast of France. 1891Chambers' Encycl. VIII. 198/1 Rearing ponds situated near the sea. 1967K. M. Smith Insect Virol. x. 184 The hot medium is poured into rearing jars.
6. Comb.: rearing-bit, a bit employed to prevent a horse from lifting the head while rearing (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); rearing-house, a building in which young chickens are kept.
1824J. H. Barlow Hatching Poultry by Steam 15 The Rearing House is of the same size and dimensions as the Hatching House, in which Fowls are kept until they are three weeks or a month old. 1948L. Robinson Mod. Poultry Husbandry xi. 227 When growing stock are first placed in arks or other types of range rearing-house, a temporary run of wire netting should be erected. 1962D. de Saulles Pictorial Poultry Keeping (ed. 2) This pullet is just about ready to be taken from the rearing house and put into laying quarters. 1975T. Allbeury Special Collection xxiii. 168 The lights were on in the rearing house... He could hear the shrill noise of eight thousand week-old chicks.
▪ II. rearing, ppl. a.|ˈrɪərɪŋ|
[f. rear v.1]
1. That rears or rises up.
With the first quot. cf. rearer 4.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 147 If it be a rearing mine or edg⁓coal as some call it, cutting the superficies of the earth at right angles. 1816L. Hunt Hero & Leander ii. 65 Surmounted like a god the rearing tide. 1851J. M. Wilson Rural Cycl. IV. 29 A viciously rearing horse..is sometimes dealt with by being pulled over backward by a rider.
2. That rears or brings up. (Cf. prec. 5 b.)
1884Health Exhib. Catal. 119/1 A Rearing Mother for the artificial rearing of the chickens.
3. = raring adj. s.v. rare v. 1 b.
1926G. Frankau My Unsentimental Journey viii. 104 A good many of the eight hundred other diners were ‘raring’ (Anglicé—rearing) ‘to go’. 1947H. Walsh Fourth Point of Star 34, I am rearing to talk this business over with her. 1963Listener 28 Feb. 393/3 Inside most liberal Lincolnographers there seems to be a Lincolnolater rearing to genuflect. |