overcasting

[Eng. over, and casting.] *I. Ord. Lang.: A darkening, clouding, or obscuring; gloom. "With the dark overcasting of superstitious copes and flaminical vestures." - Milton : Reason of Church Government, bk. ii., ch. ii. IMG:content-0447.png:[blocks in formation] "Breed a nursery of like evil, 2. To deceive, to outwit. Shakesp.: Troilus , i. 3. ō-ver-bür-den, ō-ver-bür-then, v . t . [Eng. over , and burden .] To load with too great a weight; to overload. "The overburdened brain Heavy with labor."- Long fellow : To a Child. ō-ver-bür-den-some, a . [Eng. over , and bur densome.] Too burdensome; too heavy to bear. "Think all carriages to be overburdensome."-Raleigh: Hist. World, bk. iv., ch. iii., § 11.