Tiptoes

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, n.; pl. {Tiptoes}.
     The end, or tip, of the toe.
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           He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes].
                                                    --Chaucer.


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           Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by.    --Spenser.
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     {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.
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