Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tiptoes"

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.

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