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  1. Hove is past tense for heave

    Hove is past tense for heave ONLY in the nau­ti­cal sens­es of a ship appear­ing over the hori­zon or a ship being placed in a cer­tain sail­ing posi­tion. (hove to)

    It is not used sim­ply a gen­er­al past tense for the com­mon uses of heave.

    Dad

    1. «…until the [ship] hove into
      «…until the [ship] hove into prop­er view» is the con­text in which I found it. Is Reynold­s’s usage incor­rect? Mer­ri­am-Web­ster’s Third Edi­tion Unabridged did­n’t say any­thing about the spe­cial­ized usage. Per­haps it serves me right for being too lazy to look it up in more than one dictionary. 

    2. Cham­bers Dictionary

      Gives me three def­i­n­i­tions: first, to swell or rise (list­ed as Spenser­ian). Sec­ond, to loi­ter or linger (also Spenser­ian and some­times spelt hoove). Third is sim­ply past tense and past par­tici­ple of heave.

      I sup­pose I should have looked far­ther to the entry for heave, as it says past tense and past par­tici­ple of heave is heaved, or (nau­ti­cal) hove.

      Also, past par­tici­ple (only in the sense of swollen) is hov­en.

  2. Words words words
    Am almost done with Abso­lu­tion Gap — can’t wait to be done with these books you rec­om­mend­ed! Very inter­est­ing read­ing, love the fic­tion­al physics, but very dark, no? Am find­ing it very dif­fi­cult to keep read­ing to the end of the uni­verse, or at least the end of human­i­ty. And I have nev­er looked up and learned so many new words! It was a good thing I read them on my iphone eread­er, where look­ing things up was incred­i­bly easy. My favorite new word (but one that’s no fun to actu­al­ly use, real­ly) is iatrogenesis.

    Any­way, thanks for the tip! 

    1. I haven’t yet read Absolution

      I haven’t yet read Abso­lu­tion Gap, but I guess it will have to go on my list after I’m done with Rev­e­la­tion Space. 

      I too enjoy the con­ve­nience of tap­ping on a word to look it up, although when I read on the iPhone I get lazy about sub­mit­ting my words here every time I look them up. It means leav­ing eRead­er, fir­ing up iSa­fari, wait­ing for the blog to load, and then typ­ing on the vir­tu­al key­board with­out hav­ing my ref­er­ence mate­r­i­al at hand. 

      I’ve been using Fic­tion­wise’s eRead­er since I got my first Palm Tungsten|T, and for­tu­nate­ly all that con­tent trans­fers per­fect­ly to the iPhone ver­sion of eRead­er, includ­ing my Mer­ri­am-Web­ster’s unabridged dic­tio­nary, which was not cheap.

      I’m glad to hear you’re get­ting so much from Abso­lu­tion Gap!