Vocabulary : Creeks to Creeping Charlie
Creeks : A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.Creeky : Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.
Creel : An osier basket, such as anglers use. ;; A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Creep : 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. ;; To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable. ;; The act or process of creeping. ;; A
Creeper : One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing. ;; A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia). ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers. ;; A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons. ;; An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there. ;; Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apr
