·noun The act or process of creeping.
II. Creep ·vi To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
III. Creep ·vt To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
IV. Creep ·noun A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
V. Creep ·vt To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to Fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
VI. Creep ·vt 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.
VII. Creep ·noun 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.
VIII. Creep ·vt 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.
IX. Creep ·vt 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, ·vi, 4.
X. Creep ·vt 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.
XI. Creep ·vt 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.