Muse \Muse\, n. [From F. musse. See {Muset}.] 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 \Muse\, n. [F. Muse, L. Musa, Gr. ?. Cf. {Mosaic}, n., {Music}.] 1. (Class. Myth.) 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.
Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing? --Pope.
Note: The names of the Muses and the arts they presided over were: Calliope (Epic poetry), Clio (History), Erato (Lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (Tragedy), Polymnia or Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy).
2. A particular power and practice of poetry; the inspirational genius of a poet. --Shak.
3. A poet; a bard. [R.] --Milton.
Muse \Muse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Musing}.] [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 \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 \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.
She had lived one whole life - as wife and mother - before the muse began to crave some attention, too.
Some bank directors muse about returning cash in ways that would not have to be repeated, such as buying back shares.
If so it might have been a bemused muse. Shakespeare would have looked at where his wooden O, the Globe, stood (now Park street) and west across Southwark Bridge Road to Marlowe's Rose.
"It's historic, but sad," Colmes said. "There is something about this building, maybe a radio muse that makes everything so special.
Musicians have long speculated where Holly's muse would have taken him had he lived.
In his suicide note, Mathews could only muse as to why the white FBI agents could turn against one of their own race.
Which is about where the debate stands now in Washington: Civilians muse about hitting the traffickers hard, while the top brass at the Pentagon resists involvement as bitterly as it does a budget cut.
Cela, 73, most recently made news with the public disclosure of a romantic liaison with Marina Castano, a woman half his age who is his muse and literary aide.
Dali went into seclusion and sank into depression when his wife, manager and muse, Gala, died in 1982.
When something terrible happens, the comic muse will keep it at arm's length and deflect it, whereas the tragic muse will embrace it and work it through.
When something terrible happens, the comic muse will keep it at arm's length and deflect it, whereas the tragic muse will embrace it and work it through.
The "black prince" of the title refers to the Greek muse Apollo, whom Bradley invokes as the God of poetry and music.
This is a world in which characters exist to muse on Mr. Allen's preoccupations.
If your muse isn't up to it, no matter.
Even insects, they muse, could have a measure of awareness beyond the merely reflexive.
Indeed, brainstorming with Mr. Gunkel is a bit like being hit over the head by the muse with a sledgehammer.
As I muse on this, I pick up Laura Geovanna Pena Riveira, an attractive young lady heading for the chic district of Miraflores.
So why not let those who want to muse before the mists pay for the pleasure? "I don't see anything negative about it," said Commissioner J.L. Plummer.
Rage against Margaret Thatcher animated some of the liveliest corners of British culture in the past decade, and with her departure many an artist has lost a muse.
The sign says: 'Crackpot 2 miles', and as I drive the twisting lanes I muse on interesting addresses.