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verb-intransitive. To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation.

v. To consider or say thoughtfully: mused that it might take longer to drive than walk.

n. A state of meditation.

v. To become lost in thought, to ponder.

v. To say (something) with due consideration or thought.

n. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.

n. A source of inspiration.

n. A poet.

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

n. 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.

n. A particular power and practice of poetry; the inspirational genius of a poet.

n. A poet; a bard.

verb-intransitive. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.

verb-intransitive. 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.

verb-intransitive. To wonder.

v. To think on; to meditate on.

v. To wonder at.

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

n. Wonder, or admiration.

To ponder; meditate; reflect continuously and in silence; be in a brown study.

To be astonished; be surprised; wonder.

To gaze meditatively.

Synonyms Meditate, reflect, etc. (see list under contemplate), cogitate, ruminate, brood.

To meditate on; think of reflectively.

To wonder at.

n. The act of musing; meditation; reverie; absent-mindedness; contemplative thought.

n. Wonder; surprise.

n. In Greek myth, one of the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who according to the earliest writers were goddesses of memory, then inspiring goddesses of song, and according to later ideas divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the sciences and arts, while at the same time having as their especial province springs and limpid streams.

n.

n. [cap. or lowercase] An inspiring power; poetic inspiration: often spoken of and apostrophized by poets as a goddess.

n. A poet; a bard.

n. An opening in a fence through which a hare or other game is accustomed to pass. Also muset.

n. A loophole; a means of escape.

n. The mouthpiece or wind-pipe of a bagpipe. Also written smuse.

n. the source of an artist's inspiration

n. in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

v. reflect deeply on a subject

"KSA-Best of a happy muse writing that novel. *whispering so as not to startle your muse* *G* It is a very different mind set writing different lengths."

mused    muses    musing   

source    seed    germ   

in a muse   

music    museum    muser    musing   

muset    poet    bard    consider    meditate    ruminate    ponder    wonder    gaze   

Chartreuse    Cruz    Druse    Druze    Hughes    Jews    Loos    Mahfouz    Meuse    Ruse   

swain    bard    poetry    lyre    goddess    mien    eloquence    genius    nymph    personage