Creeps dictionary definition

Sometimes he gave her the creeps, and she suspected he was sharper than he let on.
- " Creeps " in Coal-Mines.
God can dumbness keep While Sin creeps grinning through His house of Time.
A moral paralysis creeps over us " (Natural Religion, Postscript).
8, D) capable of living freely in water for at least a week (Bothriocephalus), which then, if eaten by a stickleback, throws off its ciliated envelope, and creeps by the aid of the hooks through the intestinal wall into the body-cavity of the fish.