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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.

A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.

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

Creepy. [Colloq.]

To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.

See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.

One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.

urface, 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.

Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.

Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.] One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.

A wandering about or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.

d regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak.

the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. "An hieroglyphical scrawl." Sir W. Scott.

heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper. -- In`ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

her litter. D. Estrange. Reflect upon numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world. South.

spider; -- so called as being popularly supposed to indicate that the person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money matters. -- Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid. -- A piece of money, a single coin. -- Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time…

black, filamentous, fresh- water algæ, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.

A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. "I long to be spelling her Arabic scrawls and pothooks." Dryden.

Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc.