Category:Tiptoe

Tip"toe`, n.; pl. Tiptoes (.

Defn: 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.

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.

Tiptoe Tip"toe`, v. i.

Defn: to step or walk on tiptoe.