Creep"i*ness (-&ibreve;-n&ebreve;s), n. An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.
She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness.
Mrs. Alexander.
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.
Creep"ing*ly, adv. by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.
How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents.
South.
Cree"ple (krē"p'l), n. [See Cripple.] 1. A creeping creature; a reptile. [Obs.]
There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age.
Morton (1632).