Upon entering the little country store, the stranger noticed a sign saying "DANGER! BEWARE OF DOG!" posted on the glass door.
Inside he noticed a harmless old hound dog asleep on the floor beside the cash register.
He asked the store manager, "Is that the dog folks are supposed to beware of?"
"Yep, that"s him," he replied.
The stranger couldn"t help but be amused.
"That certainly doesn"t look like a dangerous dog to me. Why in the world would you post that sign?"
"Because," the owner replied, "before I posted that sign, people kept tripping over him."
- (attrib.) That reveals or betrays (tell-tale smile).
- automatic monitoring or registering device.
TEMERITY
n. Rashness; audacity. [latin temere rashly]
TEMPLATE
n. Piece of thin board or metal plate etc., used as a pattern in cutting or drilling etc. [originally templet, diminutive of temple, device in a loom to keep the cloth stretched]
TEMPORAL
adj. - worldly as opposed to spiritual; secular.
- of time.
- gram. Denoting time or tense (temporal conjunction).
- of the temples of the head (temporal artery). [latin tempus -por- time]
TEMPTING
adj. Attractive, inviting. temptingly adv.
TENANTRY
n. Tenants of an estate etc.
TENDENCY
n. (pl. -ies) (often foll. By to, towards) leaning or inclination. [medieval latin: related to *tend1]
TENEMENT
n. - room or flat within a house or block of flats.
- (also tenement-house or -block) house or block so divided. [latin teneo hold]
