canopy

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A covering, usually of cloth, suspended over a throne or bed or held aloft on poles above an eminent person or a sacred object.
2. n. Architecture An ornamental rooflike projection over a niche, altar, or tomb.
3. n. A protective rooflike covering, often of canvas, mounted on a frame over a walkway or door.
4. n. A high overarching covering, such as the sky: "I just look up at the stars and let the vastness of that black and twinkling canopy fill my soul” ( Margaret Mason).
5. n. The uppermost layer in a forest, formed by the crowns of the trees. Also called crown canopy.
6. n. The transparent enclosure over the cockpit of an aircraft.
7. n. The part of a parachute that opens up to catch the air.
8. v. To cover with or as if with a canopy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In general, any suspended covering that serves as a protection or shelter, as an awning, the tester of a bed, or the like; especially, an ornamental covering of cloth suspended on posts over a throne or the seat of a high dignitary, or any covering of cloth so disposed.
2. n. In specific figurative use, the sky: as, anywhere under the canopy, or the canopy of heaven.
3. n. In architecture, a decorative hood or cover supported or suspended over an altar, throne, chair of state, pulpit, and the like; also the ornamented projecting head of a niche or tabernacle. The labelmolding or dripstone which surrounds the head of a door or window, if ornamented, is also called a canopy.
4. n. Nautical: A light awning over the stern-sheets of a boat.
5. n. The brass framework over a hatch.
6. n. A large smoke-bell. See smoke-bell.
7. To cover with a canopy, or as with a canopy.

Wiktionary

1. n. A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
2. n. Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
3. n. The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
4. n. In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
5. n. In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
6. v. To cover with or as if with a canopy.
7. v. To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.
3. n. Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.
4. v. To cover with, or as with, a canopy.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit
2. n. the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air
3. v. cover with a canopy
4. n. a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather