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Webster 1828 Edition

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Flapping the wings; hanging over or around; moving with short irregular flights.

hovering

hovering ‎(plural hoverings)

The act of one who hovers.
- Henry James
  Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.