Finger-nails
Finger-nails often touch the small signs of order or disorder we present — soiled ones hinting at family disgrace, well-kept ones at thrift and refinement. The dream may ask where appearances reveal something deeper, whether wild conduct among the young threatens your good name, and how much care you give the surface.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for finger-nails, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of soiled finger-nails, forbodes disgrace in your family by the wild escapades of the young.
To see well-kept nails, indicates scholarly tastes and some literary attainments; also, thrift.