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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
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.