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Overcast   /ˈoʊvərkˌæst/   Listen
adjective
overcast  adj.  
1.
(Meteorology) Completely or almost completely covered over with clouds; of the sky.
2.
(Sewing) Sewn by overcasting.


verb
Overcast  v. t.  
1.
To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken. "Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly."
2.
To compute or rate too high.
3.
(Sewing) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.
4.
(Bookbinding) To fasten, as single sheets, by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.





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"Overcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... broke dull and gray. Ominous clouds billowed restlessly and low. Beneath them torn fragments scudded toward the northwest. From her window Tara of Helium looked out upon this unusual scene. Dense clouds seldom overcast the Barsoomian sky. At this hour of the day it was her custom to ride one of those small thoats that are the saddle animals of the red Martians, but the sight of the billowing clouds lured her to a new adventure. Uthia ...
— The Chessmen of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... avoidance of anything which might precipitate strife was indeed in these days most desirable. June 28th saw the murder of the Archduke at Sarajevo. The European sky grew rapidly overcast. Days passed, and the possibility of civil war was exchanged for the near probability of European war which might find the British ...
— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn
... and Antarctic Lands Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul: oceanic with persistent westerly winds and high humidity Iles Crozet: windy, cold, wet, and cloudy Iles Kerguelen: oceanic, cold, overcast, windy Iles Eparses: tropical ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... saddened the pleasure he had in her society, a belief that the ground of it could not last. "If she could grow up so!" he said to himself. "But it is impossible. A very few years, and all that clear sunshine of the mind will be overcast, there ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell
... was too great not to be soon overcast. The unbounded influence of the De Polignacs was now at its zenith. It could not fail of being attacked. Every engine of malice, envy, and detraction was let loose; and, in the vilest calumnies against the character of the Duchess, ...
— The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete • Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe


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