verb

• (obsolete, intransitive) 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[…]."
• (obsolete, intransitive) 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"
• (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
• (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.

verb

• (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
• (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
  "Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue."

verb

• (nautical) simple past and past participle of heave
• (obsolete or dialectal) simple past and past participle of heave
  "Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him."