LekhoriLekhoriTo keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
Castration has a ſtrange effect: it emaſculates both man, beaſt, and bird, and brings them to a near reſemblance of the other ſex. […] Capons have ſmall combs and gills, and look pallid about the head, like pullets; they alſo vvalk vvithout any parade, and hover chickens like hens.
Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
O'er the deer Corps ſomtimes her vvings ſhe [an eagle] hovers, / Somtimes the dead breſt vvith her breſt ſhe covers, […]
An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
A surname.
The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”), probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”) (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentati...
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