Basin
A basin in a dream — water held for washing or for use — turns on what it holds. To bathe in one can mark graces that win real friendship; full or empty, it can speak to plenty or to debt. The dream tends to ask what we are keeping in our small vessel, and whether it runs full or dry.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for basin, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly graces will win her real friendships and elevations.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream that it is full money; if empty, you will make many debts.
Anonymous, 1894
Basin.—To dream you are eating or drinking out of a basin is a certain sign that you will soon be in love, but without great care you will not marry the first object of your affections; it denotes prosperity in your trade; and to the farmer, a good crop.