dream book

noun

a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.

First recorded in 1785–95

Whenever you want to find the answer to any puzzle, you look in that dream book!

He merely drove his hand down into his inside pocket, and fished up an ancient dream-book, greasy and tattered with use.

Last night I dreamed of eating salt mackerel and my dream book says that means trouble!

A night spent without dreams of some kind was one wasted in the eyes of the colored girl who consulted her dream book constantly.

"There's an organ-grinder; it's the first thing I saw;" and she came back fingering the leaves of her dream-book.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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