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▪ I. hovering, vbl. n.|ˈhɒv-, ˈhʌvərɪŋ|
[f. hover v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. hover. a. Suspension or poising in the air on fluttering or outstretched wings; lingering about or around, moving to and fro about a person or place. (See also hover v.1 1 c, d.)
1727De Foe Hist. Appar. ix. 178 The hovering or wandering in the air. 1802Act 42 Geo. III, c. 82 Liable to Forfeiture for hovering, or being found or discovered to have been, within Four Leagues of the Coast. 1886R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 211 The hovering in the sun of those bright-coloured two-winged flies we sometimes call drones. 1894J. Le Conte in Pop. Sci. Monthly XLIV. 746 Hovering..always refers to a maintenance of a body in one position in the air..—either by vigorous flapping of the wings, or else..with no motion of the wings at all. I shall ..confine the term hovering to the former. 1916M. A. S. Riach Air-Screws ix. 113 The value of (V) is zero, and the machine remains stationary. This is the condition already established for ‘hovering’ flight. 1960Houghton & Brock Aerodynamics viii. 179 In steady hovering, the weight is balanced by the jet thrust and the force due to the ‘cushion’ of air below the craft. 1962Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 17/1 Their hovering manœuvres,..and the transformation in the air to ‘normal’ fast flying fighter planes, marked a new era in the development of aircraft.
(ii) Motion of a hovercraft while it is supported on an air-cushion: see hover v.1 1 d.
1967Hovercraft World Jan.–Apr. 14/1 We waved good-bye..at 10.15 hours heading for Wexford, 75 miles away. The fog soon lifted and this leg was a straightforward piece of ‘hovering’.
†b. Brooding, incubation. Obs.
1671Grew Anat. Plants vi. §13 What the Hen by Incubation or Hovering is to the Egg or Chick. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. vi. 280 Many Birds stand in need of the hovering of their Dams Wings..after they are hatched.
c. Hesitation, wavering, suspense.
1679Oates Narr. Popish Plot Ded. A, The Arts and Hoverings..used in vain..to suppress and traduce the Evidence. 1827Lytton Pelham (L.), A new play had just been acted, and the conversation, after a few preliminary hoverings, settled upon it.
▪ II. hovering, ppl. a.
[f. hover v.1 + -ing2.]
That hovers: a. That hangs poised in the air; that floats or hangs about a particular spot.
1630Drayton Noah's Flood (R.), The soaring kite..to the ark the hovering castril brings. 1756Mason Odes vii. (R.), He, too, perchance, when these poor limbs are laid, Will heave one tuneful sigh, and sooth my hov'ring shade. 1865Longfellow Divina Comm. iii, The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. 1875Sears Serm. Chr. Life 8 Hovering and protecting wings.
b. Hesitating, wavering; uncertain.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 302 A houering Temporizer. 1635Sir H. Wotton in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) III. 220 We have stoode..in a kinde of hovering conceypt that your Lordship would be shortly heere in person.
Hence ˈhoveringly adv.
1818Keats Endym. ii. 819 Let the sounds Of our close voices marry at their birth; Let us entwine hoveringly! 1892Blackw. Mag. CLI. 390/1 Her little white feet skimmed so hoveringly over the floor. |