meaning of muse
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. To think on; to meditate on.
9. To wonder at.
10. Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
11. Wonder, or admiration.
12. the source of an artists inspiration; "Euterpe was his
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