Careful Words

rear (n.)

rear (v.)

rear (adj.)

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Locksley Hall. Line 168.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,

To teach the young idea how to shoot.

James Thomson (1700-1748): The Seasons. Spring. Line 1149.