crawling
    n 1: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging
         the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could
         manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl,
         crawling, creep, creeping]

Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled
   (kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or
   Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
   kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
   scratch.]
   1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
      worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
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            A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
            as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.
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   2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
      manner.
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            He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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            The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
                                                  --Byron.
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   3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
      to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious
      conduct.
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            Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.
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            Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.
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            Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.
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   4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
      as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
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