Hover: alternatives and connections

To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.

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To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.

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To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

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An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and t…

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To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.

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Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer…

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A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

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To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

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One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the cas…

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Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

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Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

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To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.

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To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.

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See Loon, the bird.

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To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.

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To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.

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of Vibrate

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