overcast

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Covered or obscured, as with clouds or mist.
2. adj. Clouded over.
3. adj. Gloomy; melancholy.
4. adj. Sewn with long, overlying stitches in order to prevent raveling, as the raw edges of fabric.
5. n. A covering, as of mist or clouds.
6. n. An arch or support for a passage over another passage in a mine.
7. n. A cast made in fishing that falls beyond the point intended.
8. n. An overcast stitch or seam.
9. v. To make cloudy or gloomy.
10. v. To cast beyond (the intended point) with a fishing rod.
11. v. To sew with long, overlying stitches.
12. v. To become cloudy or gloomy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To throw over or across.
2. To cover; overspread.
3. To cloud; darken; cover with gloom.
4. To cover with skin, as a wound; hence, to have (a wound) healed.
5. To cast or compute at too high a rate; rate too high.
6. In sewing, to fasten by stitching roughly through and over two edges of a fabric. Also overseam.
7. To become cloudy or dull; become dark or gloomy.
8. n. In mining, an air-duct or passage which crosses above another passage.
9. In geology, cast or thrust beyond a normal position, as in a thrust-fault or overturned fold.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete An outcast.
2. n. A cloud covering all of the sky.
3. adj. Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened.
4. adj. meteorology The sky is said to be overcast, when it is more than 90% covered by clouds.
5. adj. figuratively In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
6. v. transitive, obsolete To overthrow.
7. v. transitive To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
8. v. transitive To make gloomy; to depress.
9. v. intransitive, obsolete To be or become cloudy.
10. v. transitive, obsolete To transform.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.
2. v. To compute or rate too high.
3. v. (Sewing) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.
4. v. (Bookbinding) To fasten, as single sheets, by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
5. adj. (Meteorology) Completely or almost completely covered over with clouds; -- of the sky.
6. adj. (Sewing) Sewn by overcasting.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make overcast or cloudy
2. v. sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next
3. v. sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
4. n. gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
5. n. a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling
6. n. a cast that falls beyond the intended spot
7. adj. filled or abounding with clouds
8. n. the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds