Available Definitions:
1) a. - Crawling, or moving close to the ground.
2) a. - Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
3) 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.
4) 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.
5) v. t. - To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
6) 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.
7) 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.
8) v. i. - To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
9) n. - The act or process of creeping.
10) n. - A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
11) 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.