Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, v. i. To step or walk on tiptoe.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)