CPage 484
- English Word Credulously Definition With credulity.
- English Word Credulousness Definition Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.
- English Word Creed Definition A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.
- English Word Creed Definition Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
- English Word Creed Definition To believe; to credit.
- English Word Creedless Definition Without a creed.
- English Word Creek Definition A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
- English Word Creek Definition A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
- English Word Creek Definition Any turn or winding.
- English Word Creekfish Definition The chub sucker.
- English Word Creeks Definition A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
- English Word Creeky Definition Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.
- English Word Creel Definition An osier basket, such as anglers use.
- English Word Creel Definition A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
- English Word Creep Definition 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.
- English Word Creep Definition To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
- English Word Creep Definition 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.
- English Word Creep Definition 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.
- English Word Creep Definition To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
- English Word Creep Definition 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.
- English Word Creep Definition 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.
- English Word Creep Definition To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- English Word Creep Definition The act or process of creeping.
- English Word Creep Definition A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
- English Word Creep Definition A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
- English Word Creeper Definition One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
- English Word Creeper Definition A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
- English Word Creeper Definition A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.
- English Word Creeper Definition A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
- English Word Creeper Definition A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.