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Creep"ie (-&ybreve;), n. A low stool. [Scot.]

Creep"i*ness (-&ibreve;-n&ebreve;s), n. An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.

Creep"ing, a. 1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.

2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

Casements lined with creeping herbs. Cowper.

Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens. -- Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.

Creep"ing*ly, adv. by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.

How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South.

Cree"ple (krē"p'l), n. [See Cripple.] 1. A creeping creature; a reptile. [Obs.]

There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton (1632).

2. One who is lame; a cripple. [Obs.]

Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is. Donne.

Creep"y (krēp"&ybreve;), a. 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.

Crees (krēz), n. pl.; sing. Cree. (Ethnol.) An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.

Creese (krēs), n. [Malay. kris.] A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.]

From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

||CrÚ`mail`lŔre" (kr?`m?`ly?r" or - m?`y?r"), n. [F.] (Fort.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

||Cre*mas"ter (kr?-m?s"t?r), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;&?;&?;, fr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to hang.] 1. (Anat.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.

2. (Zo÷l.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.

Crem`as*ter"ic (kr?m`3s-t?r"?k), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.

Cre"mate (kr?"m?t or kr?-m?t"), v. t. [L. crematus, p. p. of cremare to burn; cf. Skr. cr&?; to cook.] To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

Cre*ma"tion (kr?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. crematio.] A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.

Cre*ma"tion*ist, n. One who advocates the practice of cremation.

Cre*ma"tor (-t?r), n. [L.] One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.

{ Crem`a*to"ri*um (kr?m`?-t?"r?-?m), Crem"a*to*ry (kr?m"?-t?-r?), } n.; pl. Crematoriums (-ŭmz), Crematories (-r&?;z). [NL. crematorium, fr. L. cremator.] A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.