A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.