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s | hove |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb hove is

to remain suspended in air, water etc; to float, to hover or hove can be (transitive|now|chiefly|dialectal) to raise; lift; hold up or hove can be (nautical) (heave).

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    hove

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (hov)
  • To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.7:
  • *: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).

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of ). More at (l).

    Verb

    (hov)
  • (transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
  • (intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To rise.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
    • Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe , / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.

    Etymology 3

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nautical) (heave)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) (heave)
  • * 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII:
    • 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.
    Synonyms
    * heaved English irregular simple past forms