Rust
Rust — slow corrosion of metal — often touches depression in your surroundings, with sickness, declining fortune, and false friends in your sphere. The dream may ask where neglect and decay are quietly eating at what should stay strong, and whether the corrosion creeping over your circumstances is being allowed to spread for want of care.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rust, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of rust on articles, old pieces of tin, or iron, is significant of depression of your surroundings. Sickness, decline in fortune and false friends are filling your sphere.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of rust is a bad omen: rusty knives, or tools of any kind, denote the destruction of property: rusty pails or utensils are so many signs of poverty.