Shark

n.	1.	(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
	2.	A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
	3.	Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark. Baskin shark See under Basking, Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish, Notidanian, and Tope. Gray shark the sand shark. Hammer-headed shark See Hammerhead. Port Jackson shark See Cestraciont. Shark barrow the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse. Shark ray a - Same as Angel fish (a), under Angel. Thrasher shark a large, voracious shark. See Thrasher. Whale shark a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length, but has very small teeth.
v. t.	1.	To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
v. i.	1.	To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. [imp. & p. p. Sharked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sharking.] Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning. - Bp. Earle.
	2.	To live by shifts and stratagems.

Noun	1.	shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
	2.	shark - a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
	3.	shark - a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; "a card shark"
Verb	1.	shark - play the shark; act with trickery
	2.	shark - hunt shark

To see a shark in your dream, represents a person whom you see as greedy and unscrupulous. This person goes after what he or she wants with no regards to the well-being and sensitivity of others. The shark may also be an aspect of your own personality which exhibits these qualities. Alternatively, you may be going through a difficult, painful, or unpleasant emotional period. The shark symbolizes feelings of anger, hostility, and fierceness. You may be an emotional threat to yourself or to others.Admirable Crichton, Loch Ness monster, Reptilia, adept, alevin, animal, anthropophagite, artisan, artist, attache, authority, barbarian, beast, benthon, benthos, blackmailer, bloodsucker, brute, bunco artist, bunco steerer, cannibal, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, cetacean, con artist, con man, confidence man, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, cordon bleu, crack shot, craftsman, crimp, dead shot, destroyer, diplomat, diplomatist, dolphin, elder statesman, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, extortionist, fingerling, fish, fry, game fish, graduate, grilse, handy man, harpy, horse coper, horse trader, hyena, jackleg, journeyman, kipper, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, leech, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, marksman, minnow, minny, mortgage shark, nekton, nihilist, no slouch, panfish, pettifogger, pitchman, plankton, politician, porpoise, predator, pro, professional, professor, proficient, profiteer, racketeer, raptor, salmon, savage, savant, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, shakedown artist, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, slicker, smolt, spieler, sponge, statesman, technical adviser, technician, tiger, tropical fish, vampire, vandal, vulture, whale, wild man, wrecker

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