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Creeping   /krˈipɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Creep  v. t.  (past crept, obs. crope; past part. crept; pres. part. creeping)  
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. "Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep."
2.
To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. "The whining schoolboy... creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school." "Like a guilty thing, I creep."
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. "The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument." "Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women."
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.
5.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. "To come as humbly as they used to creep."
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."
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.
8.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.


adjective
Creeping  adj.  
1.
Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing."
2.
Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. "Casements lined with creeping herbs."
Creeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens.
Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.





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"Creeping" Quotes from Famous Books



... shillings a-week in the country meant, we said we'd go to London and try it there; and it had been a good harvest, quickly saved, which made it bad for us poor folk, as there was the less for us to do; and winter was creeping in on us. So up to London we came; for says Robert: "They'll let us starve here, for aught I can see: they'll do naught for us; let us do something for ourselves." So up we came; and when all's said, we had better have lain down and died in the grey cottage clean and empty. I dream of it yet at ...
— The Tables Turned - or, Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude • William Morris
... low, and the pines in the square and the upright of the pillory cast long shadows. The wind had fallen and the sounds had died away. It seemed very still. Nothing moved but the creeping shadows until a flight of small white-breasted birds went past the window. "The snow is gone," I said. "The snowbirds are ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston
... up a log of fire wood and laid open the scalp of the black boy, from the eye to the crown of his head. The boy dropped, and Everett, seeing the blood creeping through his kinky wool, turned ill with nausea. Drunkenly, through a red cloud of mist, he heard himself shouting, "The black nigger! The black nigger! He touched me! I tell you, he touched me!" Captain Nansen led Everett to his cot and ...
— Once Upon A Time • Richard Harding Davis
... extent as it would be by checking the wanton sacrifice of millions of the smaller birds, which are of no real value as food, but which, as we have seen, render a most important service by battling, in our behalf, as well as in their own, against the countless legions of humming and of creeping things, with which the prolific powers of insect life would otherwise cover ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh
... had continued for an hour and a half, Mr. Price, and another American gentleman from Tower Hill Rancho, about four miles from the barracks, having heard what was taking place, mounted and rode towards the scene of the conflict. Creeping up the river bank unperceived through the thick woods, they suddenly rode into and fired upon the Indians who were in rear of the stacks of logwood. The latter, taken by surprise, and not knowing by what ...
— The History of the First West India Regiment • A. B. Ellis


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