Crope

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Creep \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. {Crept} (kr[e^]pt) ({Crope}
     (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. {Crept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creeping}.]
     [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G.
     kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. {Cripple},
     {Crouch}.]
     1. 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.
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              Ye that walk
              The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from
        unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
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              The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail,
              Unwillingly to school.                --Shak.
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              Like a guilty thing, I creep.         --Tennyson.
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     3. 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.
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              The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of
              argument.                             --Locke.
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              Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and
              lead captive silly women.             --2. Tim. iii.
                                                    6.
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     4. 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.
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     5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility;
        to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
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              To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak.
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     6. 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. "Creeping vines." --Dryden.
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     7. 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.
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     8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a
        submarine cable.
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