Pistol
A pistol — small, concealable, deadly — often touches bad fortune, a low designing character, or word of a scheme to ruin you. The dream may ask where a hidden threat is being readied against your interests, and whether you're tempted to take aim at someone in envy over a wrong that exists only in your imagining.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pistol, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Seeing a pistol in your dream, denotes bad fortune, generally.
If you own one, you will cultivate a low, designing character.
If you hear the report of one, you will be made aware of some scheme to ruin your interests.
To dream of shooting off your pistol, signifies that you will bear some innocent person envy, and you will go far to revenge the imagined wrong.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of arming yourself with a pistol foretells that you will lose caste, and perhaps become poor: if a girl dreams that her lover carries a pistol, she may be sure that he is below her in social life, and therefore an unpropitious or unsuitable match.