Muse

·noun A poet; a bard.

II. Muse ·vt To wonder at.

III. Muse ·noun Wonder, or admiration.

IV. Muse ·vt To think on; to meditate on.

V. Muse ·noun To Wonder.

VI. Muse ·noun A particular power and practice of poetry.

VII. Muse ·noun To think closely; to study in silence; to Meditate.

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

IX. Muse ·noun Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.

X. Muse ·noun 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.

XI. Muse ·noun 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.