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tiptoes


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  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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