Hover
Hover , noun
[Etymol. doubtful.]
A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] — Carew
Hover , intransitive verb
[Old English hoveren, and hoven, prob. orig., to abide, linger, and from Anglo-Saxon hof house; compare 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.
A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.
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.
Hovering o'er the paper with her quill.