Word Meanings - FORMICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. Dunglison. (more info) an ant, to feel as if ants were crawling on one's self, fr. formica

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• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 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. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• CREEPY
  Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
• CREEPLE
  1. A creeping creature; a reptile. 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 . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple
• SENSATIONALISM
  The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
• CRAWLY
  Creepy.
• CREEPINESS
  An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• CREEPIE
  A low stool.
• CRAWL
  the hands; akin to Sw. kr to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to 1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls
• CREEPING CHARLIE
  The stonecrop .
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• CREEPINGLY
  by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South.
• SENSATIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. 2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
• CRAWLER
  One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
• CREEPER
  A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia). (more info) 1. One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . .
• SCRAWLER
  One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
• BESCRAWL
  To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.
• UNDERCREEP
  To creep secretly or privily. Wyclif.
• PRESENSATION
  Previous sensation, notion, or idea. Dr. H. More.