muse
see also: Muse
Pronunciation
    • (British) IPA: /mjuːz/
    • (America) IPA: /mjuz/
Noun

muse (plural muses)

  1. A source of inspiration.
  2. (archaic) A poet; a bard.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 85:
      My toung-tide Muſe in manners holds her ſtill,
      While comments of your praiſe richly compil'd,
      Reſerue their Character with goulden quill,
      And precious phraſe by all the Muſes fil'd.
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muse (muses, present participle musing; past and past participle mused)

  1. (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
  2. (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
  3. (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
    • Thomson
      Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
  4. (transitive) To wonder at.
    • {{RQ:Shakespeare Verona|1|3|passage=Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.
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muse (plural muses)

  1. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
      still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:
      He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.
Noun

muse (plural muses)

  1. A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
    Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

Muse
Pronunciation Noun

muse (plural muses)

  1. One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.
    • 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso:
      And hears the Muſes in a ring,
      Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.
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