Alms-house
The alms-house carries the image of dependence and reduced circumstance, and in dreams it can touch fears about security and standing. It may mark an effort toward a comfortable match or position that meets disappointment. The dream tends to ask where we worry about falling, and what we fear losing of our footing.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for alms-house, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
For a young woman to dream of an alms-house, denotes she will meet failure in her efforts to contract a worldly marriage.