Definition of creep

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Creep (v. t.) 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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Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..
Cucumber :: Cucumber (n.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below..
Serpiginous :: Serpiginous (a.) Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
Transcription :: Transcription (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions..
Creep :: Creep (v. t.) 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..
Creepingly :: Creepingly (adv.) by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.
Sea Snail :: Sea snail () Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc..
Creeple :: Creeple (n.) A creeping creature; a reptile.
Srawls :: Sprawl (v. i.) To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping..
Cripple :: Cripple (n.) One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled..
Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars..
Creep :: Creep (v. t.) 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..
Creep :: Creep (v. t.) 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..
Doob Grass :: Doob grass () A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States..
Gastropoda :: Gastropoda (n. pl.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca..
Radicant :: Radicant (a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy..
Creepie :: Creepie (n.) A low stool.
Creep :: Creep (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects..
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia..
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