overcast

noun

1. A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
2. (obsolete)An outcast.
3. A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.

adj

1. Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.

   “The Dawn is over-caſt, the Morning low’rs, And heavily in Clouds brings on the Day, […]”

2. (figuratively)In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To overthrow.
2. (transitive)To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
3. (transitive)To make gloomy; to depress.
4. (intransitive, obsolete)To be or become cloudy.
5. (obsolete, transitive)To transform.
6. (transitive)To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.