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To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. |
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to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. |
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To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct. |
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To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7. |
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The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping
animal. |
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A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast,
for holding fish. |