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Tip"toe` (?), n.; pl. Tiptoes (&unr_;). The end, or tip, of the toe.
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He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. Chaucer.
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Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. Spenser.
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To be a tiptoe, To stand a tiptoe, To stand on tiptoe or To be 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.
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Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Shak.
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Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. Byron.
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2. Noiseless; stealthy.With tiptoe step.” Cowper.
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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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