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hovering |
1 definition found 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.
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