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to make a trial or an experiment. Like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep. Shak.

ly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew.

One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

Creepy. [Colloq.]

imp. & p. p. of Creep.

One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden.

certain muscles, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below. Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus or Cucumis Colocynthis. SeeColocynth. -- Cucumber beetle. (…

A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.

ody of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.

A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss. Dorsal vessel (Zoöl.), a central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects, acting as a heart.

roach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.

A creeping forth. [Obs.]

ill a vacancy; an oath. While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Pope.

A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.

Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.

A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. Dunglison.

des most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.]

so called because their larvæ (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms.