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.
To move slowly, feebly, or timorously,
as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
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.
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.
To move or behave with servility or
exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping
sycophant.
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.
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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