Stain
A stain on your hands or clothes often touches trouble over small matters, with betrayal if it's on others' garments. The dream may ask where a mark you can't quite remove is fretting you, and whether the small blemish you're worrying over points to a minor vexation or, on another's cloth, to a betrayal quietly working against you.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for stain, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see stain on your hands, or clothing, while dreaming, foretells that trouble over small matters will assail you.
To see a stain on the garments of others, or on their flesh, foretells that some person will betray you.
Fontaine, 1862
For a girl to dream of stains on her dress, is a sign of scandal: if she imagines that the stains are in front, she will be accused of an improper intimacy with a gentleman.