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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