Definition: hover

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

hover
     v 1: be undecided about something [syn: vacillate]
     2: move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"
        [syn: linger]
     3: hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
     4: be suspended in the air [syn: levitate]
     5: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;
        "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn:
        brood, loom, bulk large]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Hover \Hov"er\, n. [Etymol. doubtful.]
   A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] --Carew. --C.
   Kingsley.
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.