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As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.

A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

The common sand shark. See under Snad.

p. p. of Shove. Chaucer.

Not behooving or becoming; unseemly. [Obs. & R.] Gower.

The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner. [Prov. Eng.]

trip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. -- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the la…

e angels appear as God's messengers. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. Milton.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

A piece so adapted; a transcription; as, a pianoforte arrangement of Beethoven's symphonies; an orchestral arrangement of a song, an opera, or the like.

Just hove clear of the ground; -said of the anchor.

To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. "Kites that bait and beat." Shak.

used impersonally. And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke xxiv. 46. [Also written behove.]

To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. "The boarded hovel." Cowper.

Behoves or behooves. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The shoveler. See Shoveler.

To sing, especially with joyful notes. Hovering awans . . . carol sounds harmonious. Prior.

e favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with. By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted. Macualay.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. [R.] The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him. W. Irving. A few old battered crones of office. Beaconsfield.