overcast

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Covered or obscured, as with clouds or mist.
• adjective Clouded over.
• adjective Gloomy; melancholy.
• adjective Sewn with long, overlying stitches in order to prevent raveling, as the raw edges of fabric.
• noun A covering, as of mist or clouds.
• noun An arch or support for a passage over another passage in a mine.
• noun A cast made in fishing that falls beyond the point intended.
• noun An overcast stitch or seam.
• intransitive verb To make cloudy or gloomy.
• intransitive verb To cast beyond (the intended point) with a fishing rod.
• intransitive verb To sew with long, overlying stitches.
• intransitive verb To become cloudy or gloomy.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete An outcast.
• noun A cloud covering all of the sky.
• adjective Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened.
• adjective meteorology The sky is said to be overcast, when it is more than 90% covered by clouds.
• adjective figuratively In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
• verb transitive, obsolete To overthrow.
• verb transitive To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
• verb transitive To make gloomy; to depress.
• verb intransitive, obsolete To be or become cloudy.
• verb transitive, obsolete To transform.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make overcast or cloudy
• verb sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next
• verb sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
• noun gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
• noun a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling
• noun a cast that falls beyond the intended spot
• adjective filled or abounding with clouds
• noun the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds