Thesaurus: hover

Related headwords

Definitions

1. n. A cover; a shelter; a protection.
2. v. i. 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.
3. v. i. To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
4. v. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
5. v. to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time
6. v. hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
7. v. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
8. v. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
9. A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley. 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.
10. A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley.
11. v:100 v. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action v. move to and fro v. hang in the air; fly or be suspended above