Word Meanings - UNDERCREEP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To creep secretly or privily. Wyclif.

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• 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
• PRIVILY
  In a privy manner; privately; secretly. Chaucer. 2 Pet. ii. 1.
• CREEPINESS
  An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.
• CREEPIE
  A low stool.
• CREEPING CHARLIE
  The stonecrop .
• 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.
• 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
• 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, . .
• WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
  A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
• CREEPHOLE
  1. A hole or retreat onto which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger. 2. A subterfuge; an excuse.
• SECRETLY
  In a secret manner.
• CREEPING
  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
• UNDERCREEP
  To creep secretly or privily. Wyclif.