muses

Noun (1)

muse (plural muses)

1. Of a person: a source of inspiration.
   • Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.

   Synonyms:

   Pierian spring

2. (archaic) A poet; a bard.
   • My toung-tide Muſe in manners holds her ſtill,
     While comments of your praiſe richly compil'd,
     Reſerue their Character with goulden quill,
     And precious phraſe by all the Muſes fil’d.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 85”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Noun (2)

muse (plural muses)

1. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
   • still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (3)

muse (plural muses)

1. A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
   • Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

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