Dictionary of Dreams

412 IBN SEERIN'S it could represent a passing danger. Sliced meat in a dream also could mean happiness, quick earnings, fertility, or exposure of what man should keep personal and private. Seeing a butcher slicing meat in a dream could mean fights, evil, war, divisions in the society, ormixing the lawful with the unlawful, or usury, or fulfilling one's needs. Steam: (See Vapor) Steamroller: (Mortar) In a dream. a steamroller represents a hard-working man, or a person who tries to make good of an investment but fails to succeed. A steamroller in a dream also represents force, adversities, aberration, despotism, or it could mean bringing things down to proper level and correcting the course of one's life. Steelyard: (Scale beam) A steel yard in a dream represents a difficult son, or a husbandwith a temper that is difficult to balance. Seeing a steelyard in a dream also denotes knowledge, guidance, following the path of truth, or it could represent a judge, or a great king and his land, his subjects, secrets, hearing, sight, justice and responsibilities. Steep i ncline: (See Ascent) Steeping: (See Infusion) Steer: (See Bull; Cow) Steering wheel: Holding onto a steering wheel in a dream means pursuing one's own destiny and whatever good or bad it brings. Controlling a steering wheel in a dream means that adverse conditions will turn easy through one's deter­ mination and perseverance. Stench: (See Odor; Perspiration) Steps: (Conveyor; Stairway) Sterile: (See Impotence) Stern: (See Scowling) Stew: (Indian meal; Indian stew) Cooking a dish of boiled meat and vegetables in a dream means profits and prosperity for a poor person. Cooking Indian stew which is a meal consisting of corn and other vegetables in a dream means poverty, worship, or devotion. Cooking unripened vegetables in a dream means an illness. Ifone cooks a nice meal for himself in a dream, it means that he will be honored, or it could mean a political appointment, or money. If someone else cooks one's meal in a dream, it may denote double-crossing, deception, or perhaps it may mean receiving help from someone according to one's own intention or state. (Also see Boiled uegetables; Kitchen; Ladle) Steward: (See Wick) Stigmatize: (See Besmear) Sting: The sting of a scorpion, or the bite of a snake in a dreammeans faIling into sin, or committing a wrong action. (Also see Scorpion) Stinger: (Tongue. See Scorpion; Sting) Stink: (See Odor; Perspiration) Stir up: (See Digging up the past) Stockbroker: (See Termite) Stocking: (Sock) In a dream, stockings represent wealth and prevention, as long as they are not worn. Once seen worn in a dream, they mean business losses. If one's mother is alive, it means that he will migrate with her to another country. or it could mean that she will be deprived ofher son. If the socks are new and have a clean smell in the dream, it means that one regularly pays his due alms, that he is praised for his character and that his money will grow in a lawful way. I fhis socks are old or emit bad odors in the dream, it means that he withholds payingthe obligatory alms tax, that he is uncharitable, worthy of