15 symbols beginning with Q. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- Quitting A JobDreaming of quitting a job often voices a wish to step away from a role or duty that has started to feel too heavy to carry.
- Quack medicineDreams of being given a cure that will not work are reported with a specific frustration, and the person offering it is usually confident.
- QuailThe quail is reported as heard before seen, and dreamers usually describe something small breaking cover.
- QueenA queen often stands for authority, nurture, or a powerful feminine principle, or for your own command and dignity, rather than a literal monarch.
- QuizA quiz in a dream tends to arrive without warning, and dreamers frequently report knowing the answer and being unable to say it.
- QuagmireGround that looks solid and is not, which makes it the only landscape that lies to you.
- QuarryA hole made by removing a building, which is why every old town is standing in a landscape shaped by its own absence.
- QuayThe edge where land is organised entirely around water, and the last solid thing under anybody leaving.
- QuinceA fruit that is inedible raw and turns from cream to deep red when cooked, which is one of the stranger transformations in a kitchen.
- QuiltingMaking something warm out of scraps too small for anything else, in a craft that was thrift long before it was art.
- QuinoaA seed treated as a grain, coated in a bitter compound that has to be washed off before anybody can eat it.
- QuokkaA small wallaby whose face is shaped in a way that reads as a smile, which has made it famous for a mood it does not have.
- QuarrymanSomeone who takes stone out of the ground in pieces large enough to build with, by persuading it to split where he wants.
- QuarantineIsolation for a fixed period, named after forty days, which is the number Venice settled on for arriving ships.
- QuillA flight feather cut to a point, taken from the left wing of a goose because that is the side that curves away from a right-handed writer.