Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tiptoe"
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) 1.7 (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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