Hovering and Brooding
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Hover.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(DoD) A self-sustaining maneuver whereby a fixed, or nearly fixed, position is maintained relative to a spot on the surface of the Earth or underwater.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body.
- synonyms: incubation
- Persistent morbid meditation on a problem.
- synonyms: pensiveness
verb
- Think moodily or anxiously about something.
- Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing.
- usage: "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
- synonyms: brood, hover, loom, bulk large
- Be in a huff and display one's displeasure.
- usage: "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"
- Be in a huff; be silent or sullen.
- Sit on (eggs. )
- usage: "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
adjective
- Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
- usage: "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
- synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative
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(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Brood.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary