Adjective : an overcast day.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : Ominous clouds began to overcast the sky.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : By noon it had begun to overcast.    From Dictionary.com. 

The bottom edge of the waist may be finished by overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

Trim off edges and finish with binding or close overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

Sew on with overcasting stitch, taking two stitches in same hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

The teacher should demonstrate the method of overcasting and explain its use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

Turn the velvet over the edge one-fourth inch and sew down with an overcasting stitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

Sew to the wire closely with an overcasting stitch or with a running stitch just inside of the wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

To reinforce, you can stitch over the seam with an overcasting stitch or sew on a piece of twill ribbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Passion for Knitting] Reference

To make the button-hole, use a thread of sufficient length to do both the overcasting and the button-holing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

To gather, whip the rolled hem without hemming, making overcasting stitches towards you, even and not too fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

Linings: Waist (practice materials): basting, stitching, pressing, binding, boning (whalebone, featherbone); hooks and eyes; facing; overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Trade School] Reference

The crosses being put in at the same time as the overcasting of the bars renders some forethought necessary to get each in at just the right time and place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

Commence by overcasting the threads from point D, and upon reaching the part where the pattern is widened out, change the stitch to an open buttonholing (as shown on line B).    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

Squirrel in rich brown colour, with cream chest worked in shading stitch, tail in overcasting for the centre and furry part in single feather stitch with stem stitch outline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor] Reference

The two little girls, the younger only three years, are both overcasting seams.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference

Sew the medium-sized flowers and the small ones to the big ones with overcasting stitches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

Therefore, if the overcasting of the stitch is at issue, double check the loopers tensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Article Source] Reference

A soft material, like Coton à repriser, makes the best padding for the overcasting stitches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

The storm had grown more violent, and great clouds, ominous with rain, were now overcasting the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories] Reference

The intervening stripes are filled with 3 rows of overcasting stitches, covering 2 threads each way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

Lets the recap all of the theatrics that are looming and overcasting Malaysians and the political scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The "thirteen million plus Ringgit" guy rambles....] Reference

The braids are joined together where they meet with a few overcasting stitches, as shown in the illustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

If you wish to make them very slender at the bottom, you can finish them off with a few overcasting stitches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

Corded bars, branching out into other bars, worked in overcasting stitches, may also serve as a lace ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

The 4 squares set opposite to each other, with 2 threads between, are edged all round by 3 rows of overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

These two, as well as the subsequent patterns, are most of them worked in darning stitch and simple overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

"I see what you mean," spoke up the professor; "it has turned quite red, and there seems to be a haze overcasting the sky.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Boys Across the Frontier] Reference

Besides the cottons already mentioned, washing gold thread (Or fin D. M.C pour la broderie), may be used for the overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopedia of Needlework] Reference

During the ceremony of unveiling the monument a dark, ragged storm cloud hung over the Aztec mountain, fast overcasting the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales] Reference

Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee, called the death a tragedy overcasting the 2010 Winter Olympics.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIA Novosti] Reference

Before they had finished their repast an east wind was moaning and sighing in the trees, and a thin scud of clouds overcasting the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature's Serial Story] Reference

Pyramid’s enormity came down, overcasting my brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eothen] Reference

He does not know his own mind, "said Mr. May, his countenance overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phoebe, Junior] Reference

Beneath whose baleful shadow, overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

I recollect the wheel and the overcasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idle Hour Stories] Reference

Pin in place and sew with an overcasting stitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

It was much more exciting than overcasting seams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference

Stitches, including straight, zigzag, blind hem, buttonholes, zippers and piping, serge and overcasting edges, pin tucking, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [craigslist | arts & crafts in sacramento] Reference