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1. Think deeply about a subject or question over a period of time
   "The scientist must stop to observe and start to muse";
   - chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate
    
2. Talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion
   "We were musing whether the President had to resign after the scandal";
   - speculate

1. The source of an artist's inspiration
   "Euterpe was his muse"

1. In ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

Sounds like: muscles, mussmuse, mews, Meuse

Derived forms: musing, mused, muses

Type of: cerebrate, cogitate, germ, Greek deity, reason, seed, source, think

Encyclopedia: Muse, Oklahoma