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Creep (kr&ē;p), v. t. [imp. Crept (krĕpt) (Crope (kr&ō;p), Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.] [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. creópan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple, Crouch.] 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
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Ye that walk
The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. Milton.
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2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
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The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail,
Unwillingly to school. Shak.
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Like a guilty thing, I creep. Tennyson.
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3. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
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The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. Locke.
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Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. 2. Tim. iii. 6.
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4. To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
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5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
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To come as humbly as they used to creep. Shak.
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6. To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length. “Creeping vines.” Dryden.
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7. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
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8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
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Creep, n. 1. The act or process of creeping.
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2. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
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A creep of undefinable horror. Blackwood's Mag.
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Out of the stillness, with gathering creep,
Like rising wind in leaves. Lowell.
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3. (Mining) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
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