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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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