Creedless
(Creed"less), a. Without a creed. Carlyle.
Creek
(Creek) n. [AS. crecca; akin to D. kreek, Icel. kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine,
creek. Cf. Crick, Crook.]
1. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of
the sea, or of a river.
Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore.
Cowper.
They discovered a certain creek, with a shore.
Acts xxvii. 39.
2. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks.
Goldsmith.
3. Any turn or winding.
The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.
Shak.
Creekfish
(Creek"fish) n. (Zoöl.) The chub sucker.
Creeks
(Creeks) n. pl.; sing. Creek. (Ethnol.) A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians,
including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited
Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
Creeky
(Creek"y) a. Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.
"The creeky shore." Spenser.
Creel
(Creel) n. [Gael. craidhleag basket, creel.]
1. An osier basket, such as anglers use. Sir W. Scott.
2. (Spinning) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine,
throstle, and mule.
Creep
(Creep) v. t. [imp. Crope Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.] [OE. crepen, creopen,
AS. creópan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple,
Crouch.]
1. 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.
Ye that walk
The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep.
Milton.
2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail,
Unwillingly to school.
Shak.
Like a guilty thing, I creep.
Tennyson.
3. 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.
The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.
Locke.
Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women.
2. Tim. iii. 6.
