4. 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.
5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
To come as humbly as they used to creep.
Shak.
6. 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. "Creeping vines." Dryden.
7. 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.
8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
Creep
(Creep), n.
1. The act or process of creeping.
2. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
A creep of undefinable horror.
Blackwood's Mag.
Out of the stillness, with gathering creep,
Like rising wind in leaves.
Lowell.
3. (Mining) 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.
