Part 2567

<hw>Creep"i*ness</hw> <tt>(-?-n?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.</def>

<blockquote>She felt a curious, uneasy <b>creepiness</b>. <i>Mrs. Alexander.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Creeping</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Creep"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Crawling, or moving close to the ground.</def> "Every <i>creeping</i> thing."

<i>Gen. vi. 20.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.</def>

<blockquote>Casements lined with <b>creeping</b> herbs. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Ceeping crowfoot</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a plant, the <spn>Ranunculus repens</spn>.</cd>- <col>Creeping snowberry</col>, <cd>an American plant (<spn>Chiogenes hispidula</spn>) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.</cd></cs>

<h1>Creepingly</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Creep"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.</def>

<blockquote>How slily and <b>creepingly</b> did he address himself to our first parents. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Creeple</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Cree"ple</hw> <tt>(kr?"p'l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Cripple</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A creeping creature; a reptile.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who is lame; a cripple.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Thou knowest how lame a <b>creeple</b> this world is. <i>Donne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Creepy</h1> <Xpage=342>

<hw>Creep"y</hw> <tt>(kr?p"?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<blockquote>One's whole blood grew curdling and <b>creepy</b>. <i>R. Browning.</i></blockquote>

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<h1>Crees</h1> <Xpage=343>

<hw>Crees</hw> <tt>(kr?z)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt>; <sing>sing. <singw>Cree</singw></sing>. <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.</def>

<h1>Creese</h1> <Xpage=343>

<hw>Creese</hw> <tt>(kr?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Malay. <ets>kris</ets>.]</ety> <def>A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>crease</asp> and <asp>kris</asp>.]</altsp>

<blockquote>From a Malayan <b>creese</b> to a sailor's jackknife. <i>Julian Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cr\'82maill\'8are</h1> <Xpage=343>

<hw>Cr\'82`mail`l\'8are"</hw> <tt>(kr?`m?`ly?r" &or; -m?`y?r")</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.</def>

<h1>Cremaster</h1> <Xpage=343>