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Webster 1913 Edition
Creeping
Creep′ing
,Adj.
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.Webster 1828 Edition
Creeping
CREEPING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
creeping
creeping
English
Verb
creeping
- present participle of creep
Noun
creeping (plural creepings)
- The act of something that creeps.
- 1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
- It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite […]
- 1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons