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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.

See Durukuli.

Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers.

In; on; at; by. [Obs.] "A God's name." "Torn a pieces." "Stand a tiptoe." "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. Dana.

The upper surface of the toes, individually.

Without fingers or without toes.

A corn on the toe or foot. [Obs.]

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.

Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearl…

One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

Even-toed.

A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.

n the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.