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MUSES
Noun
muses
plural of muse
Verb
muses
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muse
Noun
Muses
plural of Muse
Source: Wiktionary
MUSE
Muse, n. Etym: [From F. musse. See Muset.]
Definition: 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, n. Etym: [F. Muse, L. Musa, Gr. Mosaic, n., Music.]
1. (Class. Myth.)
Definition: 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.
Note: 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, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mused; p. pr. & vb. n. Musing.] Etym: [F. muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand with open mouth, fr. LL. musus, morsus, muzzle, snout, fr. L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite. See Morsel, and cf. Amuse, Muzzle, n.]
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, v. t.
1. To think on; to meditate on. Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise. Thomson.
2. To wonder at. [Obs.] Shak.
Muse, n.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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