Definitions for: Creeping

[n] a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"
[adj] moving or progressing very slowly or laboriously especially by or as if by dragging the body along close to the ground; "a riverbank full of crawling crocodiles"; "a creeping tractor"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: crawl, crawling, crawling, creep, moving

See Also: locomotion, travel

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