HOVERING
Verb
hovering
present participle of hover
Noun
hovering (countable and uncountable, plural hoverings)
The act of one who hovers.
Source: Wiktionary
HOVER
Hov"er, n. Etym: [Etymol. doubtful.]
Definition: A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley.
Hov"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hovered; p. pr. & vb. n. Hovering.] Etym:
[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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition