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Hover   /hˈəvər/   Listen
Hover

verb
(past & past part. hovered; pres. part. hovering)
1.
Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action.  Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate.
2.
Move to and fro.  Synonym: linger.
3.
Hang in the air; fly or be suspended above.
4.
Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.  Synonym: levitate.
5.
Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing.  Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom.





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"Hover" Quotes from Famous Books



... for giving battle to the King, and he displayed as little firmness in avoiding it. Contrary to his own judgment, Pappenheim had forced him to action. Doubts which he had never before felt, struggled in his bosom; gloomy forebodings clouded his ever-open brow; the shade of Magdeburg seemed to hover over him. ...
— The History of the Thirty Years' War • Friedrich Schiller, Translated by Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A.
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... eloquent gesture she knew it was something more than a common fire. She trembled and could not move. But this temporary weakness was followed by an influx of wild vigour; she forgot her forty-two years, and flew to hover round the fire as the hen round water. Unfortunately she was too late to get any nearer than the road outside the gates, the crowd was so dense. And, while her pale face and anxious eyes, the eyes of a wife and ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
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... and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. 1066 JOHN WEBSTER: The White Devil, Act ...
— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various
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... go to her jam-making. Prudence stayed to help Hugh, and Mollie decided to hover between both fortune-building schemes, as she was too deeply interested in the results to wish to miss either. For an hour they worked hard, Mollie and Prudence bringing in fresh supplies of roses, rain-water, and logs of wood, for the fire ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
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... drawings, lightly sketched, and slightly tinted in green, brown, and violet. One richly-decorated page represents the Last Judgement. At the top, a miniature within the border shows forth the judge of all mankind. Angels with green-tipped wings hover on either side. Before the Saviour as judge kneel the Blessed Virgin and St. John, and on the other side is a group of monks. The background is of pure gold. Underneath, enclosed in a blue and white border, the dead rise to judgment. ...
— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone
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