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Overcast   /ˈoʊvərkˌæst/   Listen
Overcast

adjective
1.
Filled or abounding with clouds.  Synonyms: cloud-covered, clouded, sunless.
noun
1.
The state of the sky when it is covered by clouds.  Synonyms: cloud cover, cloudiness.
2.
Gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover.  Synonym: cloudiness.
3.
A long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling.  Synonym: overcasting.
4.
A cast that falls beyond the intended spot.
verb
1.
Make overcast or cloudy.  Synonym: cloud.
2.
Sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches.
3.
Sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next.



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"Overcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... and by she rose and tiptoed to the partition. She held her ear against the panel, and as she heard nothing she concluded that Denny—why not?—was asleep. Next she gazed out of the port. It was growing dark outside, overcast. It would rain again probably. A drab sky, a drab shore. She saw a boat filled with those luscious vegetables which wrote typhus for any white person who ate them. A barge went by piled high with paddy bags—rice in the husk—with Chinamen at the forward ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath
... The weather was overcast but settled, when we commenced our adventurous and perilous journey. We had neither to fear fatiguing heat nor drenching rain. It was, ...
— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne
... thought I'd run into a picture roaming around out of stock without a frame! Him and me together can do Ariel and Prospero without a scratch of make-up." Grant beamed, but when Brotherton exclaimed as an afterthought, "Say, man, what about that boy's eyes?" Grant's features mantled and the old grim look overcast his face, as Brotherton went on: "Why, them eyes would make a madonna's look like fried eggs! Where did he get 'em—they're not Sands and they're not Adams. He must take back to some Peri that blew into Massachusetts from an enchanted isle." Brotherton ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... the sky was overcast and haste was needed ere the night and perhaps the storm, came. Since it was voted that Pu-ye be the shelter, Tahn-te exacted that only the north dwellings be used—the more sacred places were not to be peered ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... the summit of the Asmai ridge when the fortune of the day was suddenly overcast; indeed while he was still engaged in the attainment of that object premonitory indications of serious mischief were unexpectedly presenting themselves. A vast host of Afghans described as numbering from 15,000 to 20,000, debouched into the Chardeh valley from the direction ...
— The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 • Archibald Forbes


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