Defn: The act of creeping.
REPTATORY
Rep"ta*to*ry (rp"t-t-r), a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Creeping.
REPTILE
Rep"tile (rp"tl;277), a. Etym: [F. reptile, L. reptilis, fr. repere,
reptum, to creep; cf. Lith. reploti; perh. akin to L. serpere. Cf.
Serpent.]
1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
2. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile
vices.
There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution,
but of fear. Burke.
And dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men.
Coleridge.
REPTILE
Rep"tile, n.
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. Cowper.
2. (Zoöl.)