Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
HOVERS
Verb
hovers
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hover
Anagrams
• Shover, shover, shrove
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
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