Jaw
To dream that you are in the jaws of an animal, signifies misunderstandings and hasty judgments, which may threaten your happiness.
To see your own jaw in your dream, represents your stubbornness, determination and forcefulness. You may need to have more willpower and fortitude in some situation.
To dream that your jaws are tight, indicates unexpressed anger and other powerful feelings which you are holding back.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- 2: the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
- 3: holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
- v. 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
- 2: talk incessantly and tiresomely [syn: yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away]
- 3: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew, masticate, manducate, jaw]
- 4: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]