These are the meanings of the letters CUPRENE when you unscramble them.
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Creep (n.)
A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
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Creep (n.)
A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
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Creep (n.)
The act or process of creeping.
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Creep (v. i.)
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
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Creep (v. t.)
To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
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Creep (v. t.)
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
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Creep (v. t.)
To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
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Creep (v. t.)
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
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Creep (v. t.)
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
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Creep (v. t.)
To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
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Creep (v. t.)
To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
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Crepe (n.)
Same as Crape.
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Enure (v. t.)
See Inure.
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Pence (n.)
pl. of Penny. See Penny.
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Pence (pl. )
of Penny
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Preen (n.)
A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.
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Preen (n.)
To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds.
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Preen (n.)
To trim up, as trees.
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Prune (n.)
A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
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Prune (v. i.)
To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.
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Prune (v. t.)
To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
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Prune (v. t.)
To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
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Prune (v. t.)
To preen; to prepare; to dress.
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Puree (n.)
A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.
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Rupee (n.)
A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.