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tiptoe


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tiptoe  \Tip"toe`\,  v.  i. 
  To  step  or  walk  on  tiptoe. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tiptoe  \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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tiptoe  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tiptoe 
  adj  1:  walking  on  the  tips  of  ones's  toes  so  as  to  make  no  noise; 
  "moving  with  tiptoe  steps" 
  2:  straining  upward  on  the  tips  of  the  toes;  "in  a  tiptoe 
  stance  to  see  over  the  crowd" 
  n  :  the  tip  of  a  toe 
  adv  :  on  tiptoe  or  as  if  on  tiptoe;  "standing  tiptoe" 
  v  :  walk  on  one's  toes  [syn:  {tip},  {tippytoe}] 




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