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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Muse

Muse (muse)
n.(?)
Muse
[From F. musse. See Muset.]
  1. A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

    Find a hare without a muse. Old Prov.

Muse

Muse (muse)
n.
Muse
  1. One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.

    Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring:
    What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing?     Pope.

    * The names of the Muses were Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polymnia or Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania.

  2. A particular power and practice of poetry.
    Shak.
  3. A poet; a bard.
    [R.] Milton.

Muse

Muse (muse)
v. i.
Muse
  1. To think closely] to study in silence; to meditate.
    "Thereon mused he." Chaucer.

    He mused upon some dangerous plot. Sir P. Sidney.

  2. To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
    Daniel.
  3. To wonder.
    [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

    Syn. -- To consider; meditate; ruminate. See Ponder.

Muse

Muse (muse)
v. t.
Muse
  1. To think on; to meditate on.

    Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise. Thomson.

  2. To wonder at.
    [Obs.] Shak.

Muse

Muse (muse)
n.
Muse
  1. Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
    Milton.
  2. Wonder, or admiration.
    [Obs.] Spenser.












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