""God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, `Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife"."—Gen. xx., 3rd.

• Baby To dream of crying babies, is indicative of ill health and disappointments. A bright, clean baby, denotes love requited, and many warm ...
• Baby Carriages To dream of a baby carriage, denotes that you will have a congenial friend who will devise many pleasurable surprises for you. ...
• Bachelor For a man to dream that he is a bachelor, is a warning for him to keep clear of women. For a woman to dream of a ...
• Back To dream of seeing a nude back, denotes loss of power. Lending advice or money is dangerous. Sickness often attends this dream. To see ...
• Back-bite Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting. For your friends to back-bite you, indicates ...
• Backgammon To dream of playing backgammon, denotes that you will, while visiting, meet with unfriendly hospitality, but will unconsciously win friendships which will endure much straining. If you are ...
• Bacon To dream of eating bacon is good, if some one is eating with you and hands are clean. Rancid bacon, is dulness of perception and ...
• Badger To dream of a badger, is a sign of luck after battles with hardships. ...
• Bag-Pipe This is not a bad dream, unless the music be harsh and the player in rags. ...
• Baghavad Ghitta To dream of the Baghavad, foretells for you a season of seclusion; also rest to the exhausted faculties. A pleasant journey for your advancement will be planned by your ...
• Bail If the dreamer is seeking bail, unforeseen troubles will arise; accidents are likely to occur; unfortunate alliances may be made. If you go ...
• Bailiff Shows a striving for a higher place, and a deficiency in intellect. If the bailiff comes to arrest, or make love, false friends are trying to work for your ...
• Bake-house To dream of a bake-house, demands caution in making changes in one's career. Pitfalls may reveal themselves on every hand. For a ...
• Baking Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many children; meanness and poverty of supporters are indicated. ...
• Balcony For lovers to dream of making sad adieus on a balcony, long and perhaps final separation may follow. Balcony also denotes ...
• Bald To see a bald-headed man, denotes that sharpers are to make a deal adverse to your interests, but by keeping wide awake, you will outwit them. For a ...
• Ball A very satisfactory omen, if beautiful and gaily-dressed people are dancing to the strains of entrancing music. If you feel gloomy and ...
• Ballet Indicates infidelity in the marriage state; also failures in business, and quarrels and jealousies among sweethearts. ...
• Balloon Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream. Business of every character will sustain an apparent falling off. To ascend in a balloon, denotes an ...
• Banishment Evil pursues the unfortunate dreamer. If you are banished to foreign lands, death will be your portion at an early date. To banish a child,...
• Banjo To dream of a banjo, denotes that pleasant amusements will be enjoyed. To see a negro playing one, denotes that you will have slight worries, but no serious vexation for a season. For a ...
• Bank To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses. Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it, great gain and prosperity. To ...
• Bankrupt Denotes partial collapse in business, and weakening of the brain faculties. A warning to leave speculations alone. ...
• Banana To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and an unloved companion. To eat them, foretells a tiresome venture in business, and ...
• Banner To see one's country's banner floating in a clear sky, denotes triumph over foreign foes. To see it battered, is significant of wars and loss of military honors on ...
• Banquet It is good to dream of a banquet. Friends will wait to do you favors. To dream of yourself, together with many gaily-attired guests, eating from costly plate and ...
• Bantam To see bantam chickens in your dream, denotes your fortune will be small, yet you will enjoy contentment. If they appear sickly, or exposed to wintry storms, your ...
• Baptism To dream of baptism, signifies that your character needs strengthening by the practice of temperance in advocating your opinions to the disparagement of your friends....
• Bar To dream of tending a bar, denotes that you will resort to some questionable mode of advancement. Seeing a bar, denotes activity in ...
• Barber To dream of a barber, denotes that success will come through struggling and close attention to business. For a young woman to dream of a barber, foretells that her ...
• Barefoot To wander in the night barefoot with torn garments, denotes that you will be crushed in expectation, and evil influences will surround your every effort. ...
• Barley-field The dreamer will obtain his highest desires, and every effort will be crowned with success. Decay in anything denotes loss. ...
• Barmaid For a man to dream of a barmaid, denotes that his desires run to low pleasures, and he will scorn purity. For a young woman to dream that she is a ...
• Barn If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn, with fat stock surrounding it, it is an omen of great prosperity. If empty, ...
• Barrel [19] [19] See Cask. ...
• Barometer To see a barometer in a dream, foretells a change will soon take place in your affairs, which will prove profitable to you. If it is broken, you will find displeasing incidents in your business, ...
• Baseball To see baseball in your dream, denotes you will be easily contented, and your cheerfulness will make you a popular companion. For a ...
• Basement [20] To dream that you are in a basement, foretells that you will see prosperous opportunities abating, and with them, pleasure will dwindle into trouble and care. [20] See ...
• Basin For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly graces will win her real friendships and elevations. ...
• Basket To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you will meet unqualified success, if the basket is full; but empty baskets indicate discontent and sorrow. ...
• Baste To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will undermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness. For a woman to baste her ...
• Bass Voice To dream that you have a bass voice, denotes you will detect some discrepancy in your business, brought about by the deceit of some one in your employ. For the lover,...
• Bath For a young person to dream of taking a bath, means much solicitude for one of the opposite sex, fearing to lose his good opinion through the ...
• Bathroom To see white roses in a bathroom, and yellow ones in a box, denote that sickness will interfere with pleasure; but more lasting joys will result from this ...
• Bats Awful is the fate of the unfortunate dreamer of this ugly animal. Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you. Death of parents and ...
• Battle Battle signifies striving with difficulties, but a final victory over the same. If you are defeated in battle, it denotes that bad deals ...
• Bayonet To dream of a bayonet, signifies that enemies will hold you in their power, unless you get possession of the bayonet. ...
• Bay Tree A palmy leisure awaits you in which you will meet many pleasing varieties of diversions. Much knowledge will be reaped in the rest from work. It is generally a good dream ...
• Beacon-light For a sailor to see a beacon-light, portends fair seas and a prosperous voyage. For persons in distress, warm attachments and ...
• Beads To dream of beads, foretells attention from those in elevated position will be shown you. To count beads, portends immaculate joy and contentment....
• Beans This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries and sickness among children. Dried beans, means much disappointment in worldly ...
• Bear Bear is significant of overwhelming competition in pursuits of every kind. To kill a bear, portends extrication from former entanglements....
• Beard To dream of seeing a beard, denotes that some uncongenial person will oppose his will against yours, and there will be a fierce struggle for mastery, and you are likely to ...
• Beat It bodes no good to dream of being beaten by an angry person; family jars and discord are signified. To beat a child, ungenerous advantage ...
• Beauty Beauty in any form is pre-eminently good. A beautiful woman brings pleasure and profitable business. A well formed and beautiful child, indicates ...
• Beaver To dream of seeing beavers, foretells that you will obtain comfortable circumstances by patient striving. If you dream of killing them for their skins, you will be ...
• Bed A bed, clean and white, denotes peaceful surcease of worries. For a woman to dream of making a bed, signifies a new lover and pleasant occupation....
• Bedbugs Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy states. Fatalities are intimated if you see them in profusion. To see bedbugs simulating ...
• Bed Fellow To dream that you do not like your bed fellow, foretells that some person who has claims upon you, will censure and make your surroundings unpleasant generally. If ...
• Bed-chamber To see one newly furnished, a happy change for the dreamer. Journeys to distant places, and pleasant companions. ...
• Beef If raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will attack the subject. Be on your guard as to bruises and hurts of any kind. To see, or eat cooked ...
• Beer Fateful of disappointments if drinking from a bar. To see others drinking, work of designing intriguers will displace your fairest hopes. To habitue's of this ...
• Bees Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements. For an officer, it brings obedient subjects and healthful environments. To a ...
• Beetles To dream of seeing them on your person, denotes poverty and small ills. To kill them is good. ...
• Beets To see them growing abundantly, harvest and peace will obtain in the land; eating them with others, is full of good tidings. If they ...
• Beggar To see an old, decrepit beggar, is a sign of bad management, and unless you are economical, you will lose much property. Scandalous reports will prove detrimental to ...
• Beheading To dream of being beheaded, overwhelming defeat or failure in some undertaking will soon follow. To see others beheaded, if accompanied by a large flow of ...
• Bier To see one, indicates disastrous losses and the early dissolution of a dear relative. To see one, strewn with flowers in a church, denotes an ...
• Belladonna Strategic moves will bring success in commercial circles. Women will find rivals in society; vain and fruitless efforts will be made for places in men's affections. ...
• Bell-man Fortune is hurrying after you. Questions of importance will be settled amicably among disputants. To see him looking sad some sorrowful event or misfortune may soon follow....
• Bellows Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty and fate by energy and perseverance. To dream of seeing a ...
• Bells To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will occur, and intelligence of wrong will worry you. Liberty bells, indicate a joyous ...
• Belly [21] It is bad to dream of seeing a swollen mortifying belly, it indicates desperate sickness. To see anything moving on the ...
• Belt To dream that you have a new style belt, denotes you are soon to meet and make engagements with a stranger, which will demoralize your prosperity. If it is out of date, ...
• Bench Distrust debtors and confidants if you dream of sitting on one. If you see others doing so, happy reunions between friends who have been separated through misunderstandings are suggested....
• Bequest After this dream, pleasures of consolation from the knowledge of duties well performed, and the health of the young is assured. ...
• Bereavement To dream of the bereavement of a child, warns you that your plans will meet with quick frustration, and where you expect success there will be failure. ...
• Bet Betting on races, beware of engaging in new undertakings. Enemies are trying to divert your attention from legitimate business. Betting at gaming tables, denotes that immoral devices will ...
• Bible To dream of the Bible, foretells that innocent and disillusioned enjoyment will be proffered for your acceptance. To dream that you villify{sic} the teachings of ...
• Bigamy For a man to commit bigamy, denotes loss of manhood and failing mentality. To a woman, it predicts that she will suffer dishonor unless very discreet. ...
• Bicycle To dream of riding a bicycle up hill, signifies bright prospects. Riding it down hill, if the rider be a woman, calls for care regarding her good name and health; ...
• Billiards Billiards, foretell coming troubles to the dreamer. Law suits and contentions over property. Slander will get in her work to your detriment. If you see table and ...
• Birds It is a favorable dream to see birds of beautiful plumage. A wealthy and happy partner is near if a woman has dreams of this nature. ...
• Bird's Nest To see an empty bird's nest, denotes gloom and a dull outlook for business. With eggs in the nest, good results will follow all engagements. If young...
• Birth For a married woman to dream of giving birth to a child, great joy and a handsome legacy is foretold. For a ...
• Birthday To dream of a birthday is a signal of poverty and falsehood to the young, to the old, long trouble and desolation. ...
• Birthday Presents Receiving happy surprises, means a multitude of high accomplishments. Working people will advance in their trades. Giving birthday presents, denotes small ...
• Biscuits Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured over silly disputes. ...
• Bishop To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental worries, caused from delving into intricate subjects. To the tradesman, foolish buying, in which he is likely to incur ...
• Bite This dream omens ill. It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing. You are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy. ...
• Blackberries To dream of blackberries denotes many ills. To gather them is unlucky. Eating them denotes losses. ...
• Blackboard To see in your dreams writing in white chalk on a blackboard, denotes ill tidings of some person prostrated with some severe malady, or your financial security will be ...
• Blacksmith To see a blacksmith in a dream, means laborious undertakings will soon work to your advantage. ...
• Bladder To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in your business if you are not careful of your health and the way you spend your energies. To see ...
• Blanket Blankets in your dream means treachery if soiled. If new and white, success where failure is feared, and a fatal sickness will be avoided through unseen agencies. ...
• Blasphemy [22] Blasphemy, denotes an enemy creeping into your life, who under assumed friendship will do you great harm. To dream you are cursing yourself, means ...
• Bleating To hear young animals bleating in your dreams, foretells that you will have new duties and cares, though not necessarily unpleasant ones. ...
• Bleeding To dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious reports about you. Fortune will turn against you. ...
• Blind To dream of being blind, denotes a sudden change from affluence to almost abject poverty. To see others blind, denotes that some worthy ...
• Blindfold For a woman to dream that she is blindfolded, means that disturbing elements are rising around to distress and trouble her. Disappointment will be felt by others through ...
• Blind Man's Buff To dream that you are playing at blind man's buff, denotes that you are about to engage in some weak enterprise which will likely humiliate you, besides losing ...
• Blood Blood-stained garments, indicate enemies who seek to tear down a successful career that is opening up before you. The dreamer should beware of strange friendships....
• Blood Stone To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate in your engagements. For a young woman to receive one as a gift, denotes she will suffer ...
• Blossoms To dream of seeing trees and shrubs in blossom, denotes a time of pleasing prosperity is nearing you. ...
• Blows Denotes injury to yourself. If you receive a blow, brain trouble will threaten you. If you defend yourself, a rise in business will follow. ...
• Blotting Paper To dream of using blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived into the betrayal of secrets which will seriously involve a friend. To see worn ...
• Blushing For a young woman to dream of blushing, denotes she will be worried and humiliated by false accusations. If she sees others blush, she will be given to flippant railery which will make her ...
• Boarding House To dream of a boarding house, foretells that you will suffer entanglement and disorder in your enterprises, and you are likely to change your residence. ...
• Boa-Constrictor To dream of this is just about the same as to dream of the devil; it indicates stormy times and much bad fortune. Disenchantment with humanity will follow. To kill one ...
• Boasting To hear boasting in your dreams, you will sincerely regret an impulsive act, which will cause trouble to your friends. To boast to a competitor, foretells that you will be unjust, and will use ...
• Boat Boat signals forecast bright prospects, if upon clear water. If the water is unsettled and turbulent, cares and unhappy changes threaten the ...
• Bobbin To dream of bobbins, denotes that important work will devolve on you, and your interests will be adversely affected if you are negligent in dispatching the same work. ...
• Bog [23] Bogs, denotes burdens under whose weight you feel that endeavors to rise are useless. Illness and other worries may oppress you. [23] See ...
• Boiler To dream of seeing a boiler out of repair, signifies you will suffer from bad management or disappointment. For a woman to dream that she goes into a cellar to see about a ...
• Boils To dream of a boil running pus and blood, you will have unpleasant things to meet in your immediate future. May be that the insincerity of friends will cause you great ...
• Bolts To dream of bolts, signifies that formidable obstacles will oppose your progress. If the bolts are old or broken, your expectations will ...
• Bomb Shell To dream of bomb shells, foretells anger and disputes, ending in law suits. Many displeasing incident{s?} follow this dream. ...
• Bones To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery is working to ensnare you. To see a pile of bones, famine and ...
• Bonnet Bonnet, denotes much gossiping and slanderous insinuations, from which a woman should carefully defend herself. For a man to see a woman tying her ...
• Books Pleasant pursuits, honor and riches to dream of studying them. For an author to dream of his works going to press, is a dream of caution; he ...
• Bookcase To see a bookcase in your dreams, signifies that you will associate knowledge with your work and pleasure. Empty bookcases, imply that you will ...
• Book Store To visit a book store in your dream, foretells you will be filled with literary aspirations, which will interfere with your other works and labors. ...
• Boots To see your boots on another, your place will be usurped in the affections of your sweetheart. To wear new boots, you will be lucky ...
• Borrowing Borrowing is a sign of loss and meagre support. For a banker to dream of borrowing from another bank, a run on his own will leave him in a state of collapse, unless ...
• Bosom For a young woman to dream that her bosom is wounded, foretells that some affliction is threatening her. To see it soiled or shrunken,...
• Bottles Bottles are good to dream of if well filled with transparent liquid. You will overcome all obstacles in affairs of the heart, prosperous engagements will ensue. If empty, ...
• Bouquet To dream of a bouquet beautifully and richly colored, denotes a legacy from some wealthy and unknown relative; also, pleasant, joyous ...
• Bow and Arrow Bow and arrow in a dream, denotes great gain reaped from the inability of others to carry out plans. To make a bad shot means ...
• Box Opening a goods box in your dream, signifies untold wealth and that delightful journeys to distant places may be made with happy results. If the ...
• Bracelet To see in your dreams a bracelet encircling your arm, the gift of lover or friend, is assurance of an early marriage and a happy union. ...
• Brain To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings will irritate and dwarf you into an unpleasant companion. To see the brains of animals, foretells that ...
• Brambles To dream of brambles entangling you, is a messenger of evil. Law suits will go against you, and malignant sickness attack you, or some of your ...
• Brandy To dream of brandy, foretells that while you may reach heights of distinction and wealth, you will lack that innate refinement which wins true ...
• Branch It betokens, if full of fruit and green leaves, wealth, many delightful hours with friends. If they are dried, sorrowful news of the absent. ...
• Brass To dream of brass, denotes that you will rise rapidly in your profession, but while of apparently solid elevation you will secretly fear a downfall of fortune. ...
• Bray Hearing an ass bray, is significant of unwelcome tidings or intrusions. ...
• Bread [24] For a woman to dream of eating bread, denotes that she will be afflicted with children of stubborn will, for whom she will spend many days of useless ...
• Break Breakage is a bad dream. To dream of breaking any of your limbs, denotes bad management and probable failures. To break furniture, denotes domestic quarrels and an ...
• Breakfast [25] Is favorable to persons engaged in mental work. To see a breakfast of fresh milk and eggs and a well filled dish of ripe fruit, indicates hasty, but favorable ...
• Breath To come close to a person in your dreaming with a pure and sweet breath, commendable will be your conduct, and a profitable consummation of business deals will follow. ...
• Brewing To dream of being in a vast brewing establishment, means unjust persecution by public officials, but you will eventually prove your innocence and will rise far ...
• Briars To see yourself caught among briars, black enemies are weaving cords of calumny and perjury intricately around you and will cause you great distress, but if you succeed ...
• Brick Brick in a dream, indicates unsettled business and disagreements in love affairs. To make them you will doubtless fail in your efforts to amass great ...
• Bride [26] For a young woman to dream that she is a bride, foretells that she will shortly come into an inheritance which will please her ...
• Bridge To see a long bridge dilapidated, and mysteriously winding into darkness, profound melancholy over the loss of dearest possessions and ...
• Bridle To dream of a bridle, denotes you will engage in some enterprise which will afford much worry, but will eventually terminate in pleasure and gain. If it is old or broken you will have ...
• Bridle Bits To see bridle bits in your dreams, foretells you will subdue and overcome any obstacle opposing your advancement or happiness. If they break or are broken you will ...
• Brimstone To dream of brimstone, foretells that discreditable dealings will lose you many friends. if you fail to rectify the mistakes you are making. To see fires of brimstone, denotes you will be ...
• Bronchitis To dream that you are affected with bronchitis, foretells you will be detained from pursuing your views and plans by unfortunate complications of sickness in your ...
• Bronze For a woman to dream of a bronze statue, signifies that she will fail in her efforts to win the person she has determined on for a husband. If the statue ...
• Brood To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be in your care, and some of them will prove ...
• Broom To dream of brooms, denotes thrift and rapid improvement in your fortune, if the brooms are new. If they are seen in use, you will lose in speculation. For a woman to lose a ...
• Broth Broth denotes the sincerity of friends. They will uphold you in all instances. If you need pecuniary aid it will be forthcoming. To lovers, it promises a strong and lasting attachment. ...
• Brothel To dream of being in a brothel, denotes you will encounter disgrace through your material indulgence. ...
• Brothers To see your brothers, while dreaming, full of energy, you will have cause to rejoice at your own, or their good fortune; but if they are poor and in distress, or begging ...
• Brush To dream of using a hair-brush, denotes you will suffer misfortune from your mismanagement. To see old hair brushes, denotes sickness and ill ...
• Buckle To dream of buckles, foretells that you will be beset with invitations to places of pleasure, and your affairs will be in danger of chaotic confusion. ...
• Buffalo If a woman dreams that she kills a lot of buffaloes, she will undertake a stupendous enterprise, but by enforcing will power and leaving off material pleasures, she will win commendation from men, ...
• Bugle To hear joyous blasts from a bugle, prepare for some unusual happiness, as a harmony of good things for you is being formed by unseen powers. Blowing a ...
• Bugs To dream of bugs denotes that some disgustingly revolting complications will rise in your daily life. Families will suffer from the carelessness of servants, and sickness ...
• Buildings To see large and magnificent buildings, with green lawns stretching out before them, is significant of a long life of plenty, and travels and explorations into distant ...
• Bull To see one pursuing you, business trouble, through envious and jealous competitors, will harass you. If a young woman meets a bull, she will have an offer of ...
• Bulldog [27] To dream of entering strange premises and have a bulldog attack you, you will be in danger of transgressing the laws of your country by using perjury to ...
• Bullock [28] Denotes that kind friends will surround you, if you are in danger from enemies. Good health is promised you. [28] See Bull. ...
• Burden To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you will be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice, caused from favoritism shown your enemies by those in power. But to ...
• Burr To dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from some unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings. ...
• Burglars To dream that they are searching your person, you will have dangerous enemies to contend with, who will destroy you if extreme carefulness is not practised in your dealings with strangers. ...
• Burial [29] To attend the burial of a relative, if the sun is shining on the procession, is a sign of the good health of relations, and ...
• Buried Alive To dream that you are buried alive. denotes that you are about to make a great mistake, which your opponents will quickly turn to your injury...
• Burns Burns stand for tidings of good. To burn your hand in a clear and flowing fire, denotes purity of purpose and the approbation of friends. To burn ...
• Butcher To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long and fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat, your ...
• Butter To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health and plans well carried out; it will bring unto you possessions, wealth and ...
• Butterfly To see a butterfly among flowers and green grasses, indicates prosperity and fair attainments. To see them flying about, denotes ...
• Buttons To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young woman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in ...
• Buttermilk Drinking buttermilk, denotes sorrow will follow some worldly pleasure, and some imprudence will impair the general health of the dreamer. To give it away, or feed it to pigs, is bad still....
• Buzzard To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old scandal will a