hover : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hover	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for hover
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hover v be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement" Synonym(s): hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner" Synonym(s): hover, linger hang in the air; fly or be suspended above be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate" Synonym(s): levitate, hover hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" Synonym(s): brood, hover, loom, bulk large
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.