Tip"toe` (?), n.; pl. Tiptoes ().
The end, or tip, of the toe.
He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes].
Chaucer.
Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by.
Spenser.
To be, or To stand, a tiptoe or on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.
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Tip"toe` (?), a.
1.
Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Shak.
Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory.
Byron.
2.
Noiseless; stealthy.
"With
tiptoe step."
Cowper.
Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth.
Sir W. Scott.
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Tip"toe`, v. i.
To step or walk on tiptoe.
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