Shroud
A shroud — the cloth that wraps the dead — often touches sickness, anxiety, and false friends' machinations, though some read it by contraries toward a wedding. The dream may ask where a deathly heaviness is settling over your affairs, and whether it signals real decline or, against expectation, a celebration to come.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shroud, 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 a shroud, denotes sickness and its attendant distress and anxiety, coupled with the machinations of the evil-minded and false friends. Business will threaten decline after this dream.
To see shrouded corpses, denotes a multitude of misfortunes.
To see a shroud removed from a corpse, denotes that quarrels will result in alienation.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of a shroud is a sign of a wedding: to see, in your dream, a woman laid out in her shroud, foretells to a young person that he or she will either be present at a marriage, or will become a victim of Cupid's archery.