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