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.-to move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.-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.-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.-to move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.-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.-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.-to drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.-the act or process of creeping.-a distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.-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.