hove

To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.

As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before[…].

To wait, linger.

Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes

To move on or by.

To remain; delay.

To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

To raise; lift; hold up.

To rise.

Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.

There was nothing else to do, and he was doing it to the best of his ability - having, in fact, fallen into a trance of admiration before a large meerschaum - when MacQuibble hove in sight on his way to the Life Class at the Gallery.

A town in the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of East Sussex, England, west of Brighton (OS grid ref TQ2804).