"overcanopy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 150, column 1:",
          "text": "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; […]",
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          "text": "On an eminence, in one of the most sequestered parts of these woods, was a rustic seat, formed of the trunk of a decayed oak, which had once been a noble tree, and of which many lofty branches still flourishing united with beech and pines to over-canopy the spot.",
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          "ref": "1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto VIII”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 104:",
          "text": "[G]reen woods overcanopy the wave, / Which like a toil-worn labourer leaps to shore, / To meet the kisses of the flowrets there.",
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          "ref": "1814, Robert Southey, “Canto XXI”, in Roderick, the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 256:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1885 December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Olalla”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1st American (authorized) edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1887, →OCLC, page 201:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(transitive) To form a canopy over (something)."
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