Part 2565

<blockquote>They discovered a certain <b>creek</b>, with a shore. <i>Acts xxvii. 39.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.</def>

<blockquote>Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated <b>creeks</b>. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Any turn or winding.</def>

<blockquote>The passages of alleys, <b>creeks</b>, and narrow lands. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Creekfish</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Creek"fish</hw> <tt>(kr?k"f?sh)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The chub sucker.</def>

<h1>Creeks</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Creeks</hw> <tt>(kr?ks)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt>; <sing>sing. <singw>Creek</singw></sing>. <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.</def>

<h1>Creeky</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Creek"y</hw> <tt>(kr?k"?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.</def> "The <i>creeky</i> shore."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Creel</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Creel</hw> <tt>(kr?l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gael. <ets>craidhleag</ets> basket, creel.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An osier basket, such as anglers use.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Spinning)</fld> <def>A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.</def>

<h1>Creep</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Creep</hw> <tt>(kr?p)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Crept</er> <tt>(kr?pt)</tt> (<er>Crope</er> <tt>(kr<?/p)</tt>, <mark>Obs</mark>.); <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Crept</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Creeping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>crepen</ets>, <ets>creopen</ets>, AS. <ets>cre<?/pan</ets>; akin to D. <ets>kruipen</ets>, G. <ets>kriechen</ets>, Icel. <ets>krjupa</ets>, Sw. <ets>krypa</ets>, Dan. <ets>krybe</ets>. Cf. <er>Cripple</er>, <er>Crouch</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly <b>creep</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.</def>

<blockquote>The whining schoolboy . . . <b>creeping</b>, like snail, Unwillingly to school. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Like guilty thing, I<b>creep</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; <as>as, age <ex>creeps</ex> upon us</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The sothistry which <b>creeps</b> into most of the books of argument. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Of this sort are they which <b>creep</b> into houses, and lead captive silly women. <i>2. Tim. iii. 6.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To slip, or to become slightly displaced; <as>as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may <ex>creep</ex> in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may <ex>creep</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; <as>as, a <ex>creeping</ex> sycophant</as>.</def>