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(1):

(n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.

(2):

(n.) The act or process of creeping.

(3):

(v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

(4):

(v. t.) 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.

(5):

(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.

(6):

(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.

(7):

(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.

(8):

(v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

(9):

(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.

(10):

(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.

(11):

(v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Creep'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/creep.html. 1828.
 
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