حوم

2 حوّم فِى الأَمْرِ ذ i. q. اِسْتَدَامَ (tropical:) [app. as meaning (assumed tropical:) He paused, and acted with deliberation, or in a patient or leisurely manner, or he waited in expectation, in the affair, or case, like one who hovers about a thing]. (K, TA.)