HOVER Copy link • HOVERpendere, with or without alis (to hang, i. e., in the air; but poetic in this sense; also with in aera in auras): *aere librari (to be balanced in the air): sometimes circumvolare (to fly round; also, IMPROP., mors atris circumvolat alis, Hor.). IMPROPR. (e.g., of an army hovering over a country, etc.), imminere or impendere (alicui rei).