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/ˈoʊvərkˌæst/ Listen

adjective

overcast adj.

(Meteorology) Completely or almost completely covered over with clouds; of the sky.

(Sewing) Sewn by overcasting.

verb

Overcast v. t.

To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken. "Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly."

To compute or rate too high.

(Sewing) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

(Bookbinding) To fasten, as single sheets, by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.

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Etymology of 'Overcast'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overcast" Quotes from Famous Books

... North Atlantic Current; mild winters, cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half ...

— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... if the clouds that had so long overcast this little house had drifted away this calm Sabbath day, and the sun was ...

— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper

... knows whether, even for my boy's sake, I could have stood this state of things much longer? Anyway, her neck will be out of chancery at last!' Thus absorbed, he was hardly conscious of the heavy heat. The sky had become overcast, purplish with little streaks of white. A heavy heat-drop plashed a little star pattern in the dust of the road as he entered the Park. 'Phew!' he thought, 'thunder! I hope she's not come to meet me; there's a ducking up there!' But at that very minute he saw Irene coming ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... more days Charley proudly followed the trail alone, and then came a morning with a heavily overcast sky, and a keen northeast wind blowing in from the bay. Toby predicted that it would snow before midday, and as Charley slipped his feet into his snowshoe slings, and shouldered Toby's gun preparatory to setting out ...

— Left on the Labrador - A Tale of Adventure Down North • Dillon Wallace

... agreeable prospect of future tranquillity; and it appeared more probable that they would thenceforth become formidable to their neighbors than be exposed to their inroads and devastations. But these flattering views were soon overcast by the appearance of the Danes, who, during some centuries, kept the Anglo-Saxons in perpetual inquietude, committed the most barbarous ravages upon them, and at last reduced them ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various

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