Overcanopy

Quick meaning: Overcanopy is a verb meaning (transitive) To form a canopy over (something).

Meaning

(transitive) To form a canopy over (something).

Example Sentences

[G]reen woods overcanopy the wave, / Which like a toil-worn labourer leaps to shore, / To meet the kisses of the flowrets there.

I know a banke where the wilde thyme blowes, / Where Oxſlips and the nodding Violet growes, / Quite ouer-cannoped with luſcious woodbine, / With ſweet muſke roſes, and with Eglantine; […]

An oak grew near, and with its ample boughs / O'ercanopied the spring; its fretted roots / Emboss'd the bank, and on their tufted bark / Grew plants which love the moisture and the shade.

The next day it was glorious weather; depth upon depth of blue over-canopied the mountains; the sun shone wide; and the wind in the trees and the many falling torrents in the mountains filled the air with delicate and haunting music.

Word Forms

• overcanopies
• overcanopying
• overcanopied

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