Definition of creep

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Creep (v. t.) 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..

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Creeple :: Creeple (n.) One who is lame; a cripple.
Creep :: Creep (n.) 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..
Pixie :: Pixie (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring..
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
Slink :: Slink (a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
Insinuate :: Insinuate (v. i.) To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices..
Transcription :: Transcription (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions..
Serpiginous :: Serpiginous (a.) Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
Reptile :: Reptile (a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs..
Guitguit :: Guitguit (n.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidae, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit..
Creep :: Creep (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects..
Sea Snail :: Sea snail () Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc..
Creeple :: Creeple (n.) A creeping creature; a reptile.
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen..
Creeping :: Creeping (a.) Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils..
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers..
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..
Eretation :: Eretation (n.) A creeping forth.
Reptatory :: Reptatory (a.) Creeping.
Formication :: Formication (n.) A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
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