[f. prec. sb.]
trans. To cover with, or as with, a canopy.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., xii. Lofty trees … Which erst from heat did canopie the herd.
1698. Crowne, Caligula, III. 28. That point of Heaven … Which canopys that holy happy land.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., II. 65. Yon gay clouds, which canopy the skies.
1869. E. Peacock, in Athenæum, 22 May, 710/3. A very graceful iron herse … canopies the alabaster effigies of a Marmion and his spouse.
