muse

name

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
3. A place in the United States:

noun

Etymology: From Middle English Muse, from Latin Musa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

1. One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.

   “And hears the Muſes in a ring, Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.

1. To become lost in thought, to ponder.
2. To say (something) with due consideration or thought.

   “When I asked about her affinity for playing self-obsessed artists, O’Hara mused: “Maybe I’m just trying to get it out of my system. I’m so afraid to be like that.””

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.”

3. To think on; to meditate on.

   “Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.”

   “It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.”

4. To wonder at.

   “Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.”