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hov·er

 (hŭv′ər, hŏv′-)
v. hov·ered, hov·er·ing, hov·ers
v.intr.
1. To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air: gulls hovering over the waves.
2. To remain or linger in or near a place: hovering around the speaker's podium.
3. To remain in an uncertain state; waver: hovered between anger and remorse.
4. Computers To position a pointer over an object or area of the screen, causing a pop-up box to appear or other change to occur: Hover over the image to display the filename.
v.tr.
1. To cause to hover: The pilot hovered the helicopter a few feet above the icy river.
2. Computers To position (a pointer) over an object or area of the screen: hovered the cursor over the link.
n.
The act or state of hovering: a helicopter in hover.
[Middle English hoveren, frequentative of hoven.]
hov′er·er n.
hov′er·ing·ly adv.
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hovering

(ˈhɒvərɪŋ)
adj
staying in the same position in the airremaining in or near one place
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hovering

A self-sustaining maneuver whereby a fixed, or nearly fixed, position is maintained relative to a spot on the surface of the Earth or underwater.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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From time to time, as we two went on our way, the bright figure of the child paused, hovering low in the cloudless sky.
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There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air!
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on!" -- but o'er the Past(Dim guld!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, mothionless, aghast!
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While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of the flesh, and carried it, along with a burning cinder, to her nest.
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And you see, a foreign female of that genteel appearance coming into the shop, and hovering--I should be the last to make use of a strong expression if I could avoid it, but hovering, sir--in the court-- you know it is--now ain't it?
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By the yellow candlelight she saw the head distinctly, hovering in mid-air above her.
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As he stood hovering over you half suspended in air, so wildly and eagerly peering towards the horizon, you would have thought him some prophet or seer beholding the shadows of Fate, and by those wild cries announcing their coming.
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