Nails
Nails — driven to hold things fast — often touch much toil for small recompense, honourable if lowly work, or sickness and failure if they're rusty and broken. The dream may ask where you're laboring hard for little reward, and whether the fastenings holding your efforts together are sound and sturdy or corroded and giving way.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for 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 see nails in your dreams, indicates much toil and small recompense.
To deal in nails, shows that you will engage in honorable work, even if it be lowly.
To see rusty or broken nails, indicates sickness and failure in business.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that one's nails are longer than usual, signifies profit, and the contrary, loss: to dream your nails are cut off, signifies loss and disgrace, and contention with friends and relations. If one dreams his nails are pulled off, it threatens with misery and affliction, and danger of death: for a man to dream he bites his nails, shows quarrels and dissensions: to dream of paring your nails, foretells a lingering sickness.