Angling

To dream that you are angling betokens much affliction and trouble in seeking for something you desire to get.

Apes

To dream you have seen, or had anything to do with them, signifies malicious, weak, strange, and secret enemies; also malefactors and deceivers.

Back

To dream you see your back, betokens some un-happiness, for the back and all the hinder parts signify old-age; therefore, as a man thinks his hinder parts to be, so shall he be in his age. To dream a man's back is broken, hurt, or disfigured, shows his enemies will get the better of him, and that he will be scoffed at by all persons. To dream of the backbone signifies health and joy, and domestic comfort and prosperity.

Bagpipes

To dream that you play upon bagpipes signifies trouble, contention, and being overthrown at law.

Barley-bread

To dream of eating barley-bread signifies health and content.

Basilisk

When you dream of a woman that she is delivered of a basilisk instead of a child, it is a bad hieroglyphic, and betokens no good to the dreamer; and he ought heartily to recommend himself to the Divine Being, that he would preserve him, and avert those misfortunes that threaten him. And if it be a woman that has such a dream, many authors - Anselmus Julianus in particular, who is an author to whom great regard ought to be had - affirm that she shall have very good success and comfort, shall be rich and generally beloved, and shall prosper in all her undertakings.

Beard

To dream you have a beard long, thick, and unhandsome, is of a good signification to an orator, or an ambassador, lawyer, philosopher, or any who desires to speak well, or to learn arts and sciences. If one dreams he hath a comely beard, it shows he shall be pleasant in his discourse, find out the intricacies of the matter proposed, and prosper in his undertakings. If a maid dreams that she hath a beard, she will be speedily matched to her content. If she be a married woman, such a dream threatens her with the loss of her husband, or that she shall be separated from him, and constrained to govern her house singly as if she were a man. If it be a woman with child that so dreams, it shows she shall have a son. If a widow woman dreams she hath a beard, she shall have a husband who shall be kind and bountiful. If she be at law, it shows she shall persevere in her opinion; and, bearing a high mind, regard her honour, and vindicate it as if she were a man. To a young child this dream is death; but to him who is now in his youth, beginning to have a beard, it is a sign he shall rise by himself, and put himself forward, of what estate soever he be. If one dreams that he hath lost his beard, or that somebody hath pulled it up by the roots or shaved it, it denotes loss of relations, estates, and honour. To dream that one hath a great beard, in a young man betokeneth wisdom; in an old man, length of years; but in a woman that she shall be a furious vixen, and wear the breeches. Bees. To dream of bees is good and bad: good, if they sting not; but bad, if they sting the party dreaming, for then they signify enemies. And therefore to dream that bees fly about your ears, shows your being beset with many enemies; but if you beat them off without being stung by them, it is a sign of victory and of your overcoming them. To dream of seeing bees, signifies profit to country people, and trouble to the rich; yet to dream that they make their honey in any part of a house or tenement, signifies to the occupier dignity, eloquence, and good success in business. But to dream you are stung by a bee signifies vexation and trouble. To take bees signifies profit and gain. To dream of bees is good to ploughmen, and to such as thereby get profit. To, others they signify trouble by reason of the noise they make; and wounds by reason of their sting, and sickness by reason of their honey and wax.