1. A long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent ravelling
   - overcast

1. Make overcast or cloudy
   "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
   - cloud 
2. Sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches 
3. Sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next
   "overcast books"

Derived forms: overcastings

Type of: darken, run up, sew, sew together, stitch, whipping, whipstitch, whipstitching

Antonym: clear up

Encyclopedia: Overcast

• faff
• Fafnir
• fag
• fag end
• fag hag
• fag out
• Fagaceae
• Fagales
• fagged
• faggot
• faggot stitch
• faggot up
• faggoting
• Fagin
• Fagopyrum
• Fagopyrum esculentum
• fagot
• fagot stitch
• fagoting
• Fagus
• Fagus americana
• Fagus grandifolia
• Fagus pendula
• Fagus purpurea
• Fagus sylvatica