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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.”
 Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth.