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canopy

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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can=o=py
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2 in 9 verses (in OT : 2 in 9 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

canopyn. [OE. canapie, F. canapé sofa, OF. conopée, conopeu, conopieu, canopy, vail, pavilion (cf. It. canopè canopy, sofa), LL. conopeum a bed with mosquito curtains, fr. Gr. kwnwpei^on, fr. kw`nwps gnat, kw`nos cone + 'w`ps face. See Cone, and Optic.].
  •  A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.  [1913 Webster]
canopyv. t. 
     To cover with, or as with, a canopy.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

canopy, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a a covering hung or held up over a throne, bed, person, etc. b the sky. c an overhanging shelter.
2 Archit. a rooflike projection over a niche etc.
3 the uppermost layers of foliage etc. in a forest.
4 a the expanding part of a parachute. b the cover of an aircraft's cockpit.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) supply or be a canopy to.

Etymology
ME f. med.L canopeum f. L conopeum f. Gk konopeion couch with mosquito-curtains f. konops gnat

THESAURUS

canopy

Caelus, air, altar carpet, altar cloth, antimacassar, apply to, awning, azure, baldacchino, baldachin, belvedere, blanket, blind, block, blue sky, caelum, canopy of heaven, centerpiece, cerecloth, cerement, cerulean, chrismal, ciborium, cloak, cloth, clothe, cloud, cope, corporal, cover, cover up, cowl, cozy, curtain, doily, dossal, eclipse, empyrean, ether, fanon, film, fingerstall, firmament, gazebo, hat, heaven, heavens, hood, housing, hyaline, jalousie, lamp shade, lay on, lay over, lift, lifts, mantle, marquee, marquise, mask, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, overlay, overspread, pall, parasol, pavilion, pith helmet, pledget, purdah, put on, roof, scarf, screen, scum, shade, shade tree, sheet, shield, shroud, shutter, sky, smoke screen, spread over, starry heaven, summerhouse, sun hat, sun helmet, sunbonnet, sunshade, superimpose, superpose, tablecloth, tarpaulin, tent, tester, the blue, the blue serene, tidy, topee, umbrella, vault, vault of heaven, veil, veiling, venetian blind, visor, welkin, window curtain, window screen, window shade

ROGET THESAURUS

canopy

Covering

N covering, cover, baldachin, baldachino, baldaquin, canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri, umbrella, parasol, sunshade, veil (shade), shield, roof, ceiling, thatch, tile, pantile, pentile, tiling, slates, slating, leads, barrack, plafond, planchment, tiling, shed, top, lid, covercle, door, operculum, bulkhead, bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall, coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget, housing, antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip, linoleum, saddle cloth, blanket cloth, tidy, tilpah, apishamore, integument, tegument, skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide, pelt, peltry, cordwain, derm, robe, buffalo robe, cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis, clothing, mask, peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat, eggshell, glume, capsule, sheath, sheathing, pod, cod, casing, case, theca, elytron, elytrum, involucrum, wrapping, wrapper, envelope, vesicle, corn husk, corn shuck, dermatology, conchology, testaceology, inunction, incrustation, superimposition, superposition, obduction, scale, veneer, facing, overlay, plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate, engobe, ormolu, Sheffield plate, pavement, coating, paint, varnish, plating, barrel plating, anointing, enamel, epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition, ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo, cerement, ointment, covering, superimposed, overlaid, plated, cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous, covered, imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad, under cover, cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform, vaginate.


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