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Dictionary

Turning to a dictionary often touches over-reliance on outside opinion — leaning on others' definitions when your own will could settle the matter. The dream may ask where you defer too readily to others in your affairs, what you already know but won't trust yourself to act on, and where your own judgment waits to be used.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dictionary, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream that you are referring to a dictionary, signifies you will depend too much upon the opinion and suggestions of others for the clear management of your own affairs, which could be done with proper dispatch if your own will was given play.