'Tiptoe' definitions:

Definition of 'tiptoe'

adverb

On tiptoe or as if on tiptoe; "standing tiptoe"

adjective

Walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise; "moving with tiptoe steps"

noun

The tip of a toe

verb

Walk on one's toes [syn: tiptoe, tip, tippytoe]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, n.; pl. Tiptoes. The end, or tip, of the toe. [1913 Webster]
He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
To be a tiptoe, To stand a tiptoe, To stand on tiptoe or To be on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, a.
1. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. [1913 Webster]
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
2. Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]