hover

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air: gulls hovering over the waves.
2. v. To remain or linger in or near a place: hovering around the speaker's podium.
3. v. To remain in an uncertain state; waver: hovered between anger and remorse.
4. n. The act or state of hovering: a helicopter in hover.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To keep lingering about; wait near at hand; move about waveringly, cautiously, or hesitatingly; go to and fro near or about a place or an object.
2. To hang fluttering in the air, as a bird or an insect while seeking food or a place to alight; linger over or about a place or an object.
3. To be in an indeterminate or irresolute state; stand in suspense or expectation; waver as to a decision or a result: as, a patient hovering between life and death; a mind hovering on the verge of madness.
4. To protect or shelter; cover with the wings and body: said of a brooding fowl: as, a hen with more chickens than she can hover.
5. n. A protection or shelter.
6. n. In prosody, a foot consisting of mere accentual place.
7. n. Same as hoverer.

Wiktionary

1. v. To float in the air.
2. v. To linger in one place.
3. v. To waver, or be uncertain.
4. v. computing To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Archaic A cover; a shelter; a protection.
2. v. 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.
3. v. To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
2. v. move to and fro
3. v. hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
4. v. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
5. v. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action