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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tiptoe

Tip′toe′ (·tō′), 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.

Tip′toe′ (tĭp′tō′), 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.

Tip′toe′, v. i. To step or walk on tiptoe.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.