3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hover \Hov"er\, n. [Etymol. doubtful.]
A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] --Carew. --C.
Kingsley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hover \Hov"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hovered}; p. pr & vb n.
{Hovering}.] [OE. hoveren, and hoven, prob. orig., to abide,
linger, and fr AS hof house; cf OFries hovia to receive
into one's house. See {Hovel}.]
1. To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain
in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to
be suspended in the air above something
Great flights of birds are hovering about the
bridge, and settling on it --Addison.
A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.
--Dryden.
2. To hang about to move to and fro near a place
threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast.
--Milton.
Hovering o'er the paper with her quill. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
hover
v 1: be undecided about something [syn: {vacillate}]
2: move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"
[syn: {linger}]
3: hand in the air; fly or be suspended above
4: be suspended in the air [syn: {levitate}]
5: hang over as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;
"The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn:
{brood}, {loom}, {bulk large}]
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