Creep

Definition of Creep

Pronunciation: krēp

v. t.	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. [imp. Crept (krĕpt) (Crope (krōp), Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.] Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. - Milton.
	2.	To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. - Shak. Like a guilty thing, I creep. - Tennyson.
	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. - Locke. Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. - 2. Tim. iii. 6.
	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. - Shak.
	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.
	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.
n.	1.	The act or process of creeping.
	2.	A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. A creep of undefinable horror. - Blackwood's Mag. Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves. - Lowell.
	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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