A hind part, The part of a military deployment usually farthest from the fighting front, The space behind or at the back; a tract or a position lying backward; the background of a situation or a point of view, intransitive verb_ To tend (growing plants or animals), To rise on the hind legs, as a horse, To rise high in the air; tower, transitive verb_ To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate, To erect by building; to set up; to construct, Obs. or R. To lift and take up, adjective_ Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost, an officer in the navy, next in rank below a vice admiral and above a commodore. See Admiral, Of, at, or located in the rear