Word Meanings - HOVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cover; a shelter; a protection. Carew. C. Kingsley.

HOVER-HAWK
The kestrel.
THREATEN
1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
IMPENDING
Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope. Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See Imminent.
HOVER
A cover; a shelter; a protection. Carew. C. Kingsley.
HOVERER
A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.
THREATENER
One who threatens. Shak.
HOVERINGLY
In a hovering manner.
IMPENDENCE; IMPENDENCY
The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin.
IMPENDENT
Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.
THREATENING
a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.
IMPEND
To pay. Fabyan.
WINDHOVER
The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.