Muse /(?)/

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.

1. One of the nine goddesses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural. At one time certain other goddesses were considered as muses. (Class. Myth.)

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

2. A particular power and practice of poetry; the inspirational genius of a poet.
3. A poet; a bard. [R.]

imp. & p. p. Mused; p. pr. & vb. n. Musing

1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.

   He mused upon some dangerous plot.

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.
3. To wonder. [Obs.]

1. To think on; to meditate on.

   Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.

2. To wonder at. [Obs.]

1. Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
2. Wonder, or admiration. [Obs.]