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Tooth-picks

Tooth-picks

Tooth-picks — small tools for niggling at what's stuck — often touch petty anxieties and spites that harass you needlessly if you attend to them, with a part in a friend's injury if you use one. The dream may ask where you're picking at small grievances, and whether dwelling on the trivial is worth the harm it does to your friendships.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tooth-picks, 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 of tooth-picks, foretells that small anxieties, and spites will harass you unnecessarily if you give them your attention.

If you use one, you will be a party to a friend's injury.