- (adv.) To tend toward or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject or mean.
- (adv.) To creep on the earth or with the face to the ground; to lie prone or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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