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Muse
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A particular power and practice of poetry.
(2):
(n.) To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(n.) To wonder.
(5):
(n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
(6):
(n.) 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):
(n.) Wonder, or admiration.
(8):
(n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
(9):
(v. t.) To think on; to meditate on.
(10):
(v. t.) To wonder at.
(11):
(n.) A poet; a bard.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Muse'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/muse.html. 1828.