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Muse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

2. 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.

3. A particular power and practice of poetry.

4. A poet; a bard.

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

6. 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.

7. To wonder.

8. Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.

9. Wonder, or admiration.

Muse [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To think on; to meditate on.

2. To wonder at.

Mused [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Muse

Museful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Thinking deeply or closely; silently thoughtful.

2. Full of museful mopings.

Museful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Meditative; thoughtfully silent.

Museless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Disregarding the power of poetry.

Museless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical.

Muser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who thinks closely in silence, or one apt to be absent in mind.

Muser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who muses.

Muses Encyclopedia Britannica

MUSES, The, according to the view which prevailed among the Greek writers and has become â commonplace of modern literature, were nine goddesses who presided over the nine principal departments of letters: Calliope, Muse of epic poetry; Euterpe, of lyric poetry; Erato, of erotic poetry; Melpomene, of tragedy; Thalia, of comedy; Polyhymnia, of the hymn as used in the worship of the gods; Terpsichore, of choral song and the dance which formed its necessary accompaniment; Clio, of history; and Urania, of astronomy. They are represented in ancient art as fully draped figures characterized by attitude, dress, and symbols appropriate to the departments over which they presided. In the simpler conception that prevails in earlier literature they were said to be daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, i.e., memory personified. In chorus round the altar of Zeus they sing the origin of the world, of gods, and of men, the might and the glorious deeds of Zeus. At the banquets of the gods their joyous music is heard. They honour also the great heroes; they sing at the marriage of Cadmus and of Peleus; their mourning song at the death of Achilles drew tears from both gods and men. They know all things past and future and impart to their chosen poets the knowledge and the skill to write. They are usually maiden goddesses, but some of the mythic poets—Orpheus, Linus, Ialemus—are said to be sons of a Muse....

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 74
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Muset [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The place through which the hare goes to relief; a hunting term.

Muset [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.

Musette [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

2. An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.

Museum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

Thought Roget’s Thesaurus §451

N. thought, d, exercitation of the intellect, ], exercise of the intellect, "so sweet is zealous contemplation", intellection, "the power of thought is the magic of the mind", reflection, "those that think must govern those that toil", cogitation, "thought is parent of the deed", consideration, "thoughts in attitudes imperious", meditation, "thoughts that breathe and words that burn", study, vivere est cogitare, lucubration, volk der dichter und denker, speculation, deliberation, pondering, head work, brain work, cerebration, deep reflection, close study, application, abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing, brown study, reverie, platonism, depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts, self-counsel self-communing, self- consultation, philosophy of the absolute, philosophy of the academy, philosophy of the garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the porch, association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas, flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas, after thought, mature thought, reconsideration, second thoughts, retrospection, excogitation, examination invention, thoughtfulness

V. think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate, bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon, speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate, brood over, con over, animadvert, study, bend -, apply mind, digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend, realize, appreciate, fancy, trow, take into consideration, take counsel, commune with oneself, bethink oneself, collect one's thoughts, revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, run over in the mind, chew the cud upon, sleep upon, take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat one's brains, cudgel one's brains, set one's brain to work, set one's wits to work, harbor an idea, entertain an idea, cherish an idea, nurture an idea, take into one's head, bear in mind, reconsider, occur, present itself, suggest itself, come into one's head, get into one's head, strike one, flit across the view, come uppermost, run in one's head, enter the mind, pass in the mind, cross the mind, flash on the mind, flash across the mind, float in the mind, fasten itself on the mind, be uppermost in the mind, occupy the mind, have in one's mind, make an impression, sink into the mind, penetrate into the mind, engross the thoughts

Adj. thinking, thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, platonic, philosophical, lost in thought, deep musing, in the mind, under consideration

Adv. all things considered

Phr. the mind being on the stretch, the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon, "divinely, bent to meditation", en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, "fresh- pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought", "go speed the stars of thought", "in maiden meditation fancy-free" [m

Poetry Roget’s Thesaurus §597

N. poetry, poetics, poesy, muse, calliope, tuneful nine, parnassus, helicon, pierides, pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, *monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c, hexameter, pentameter, alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum

V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan

Adj. poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, melibean, skaldic, ionic, sapphic, alcaic, pindaric

Phr. "a poem round and perfect as a star", dichtung und wahrheit, furor poeticus, "his virtues formed the magic of his song", "i do but sing because i must", "i learnt life from the poets", licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, "o for a muse of fire!", "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge", "the true poem is the poet's mind", volk der dichter und denker, "wisdom married to immortal verse"