Definition of muse

• 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 who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.
• n. - A particular power and practice of poetry.
• n. - A poet; a bard.
• n. - To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
• 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.
• n. - To wonder.
• v. t. - To think on; to meditate on.
• v. t. - 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.