Crossword-Solution: MUSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Muse | 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. |
| Muse | n. | A particular power and practice of poetry. |
| Muse | n. | A poet; a bard. |
| Muse | n. | To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. |
| Muse | 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. |
| Muse | n. | To wonder. |
| Muse | v. t. | To think on; to meditate on. |
| Muse | v. t. | To wonder at. |
| Muse | n. | Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study. |
| Muse | n. | Wonder, or admiration. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MUSE | anagram | EMUS, MEUS, UMES |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with MUSE (5)
But drive farr off the barbarous dissonance Of _Bacchus_ and his Revellers, the Race Of that wilde Rout that tore the _Thracian_ Bard In _Rhodope_, where Woods and Rocks had Eares To rapture, till the savage clamor dround Both Harp and Voice; nor could the Muse defend Her Son.
And they are miserly because they have no means of openly acquiring the money which they prize; they will spend that which is another man's on the gratification of their desires, stealing their pleasures and running away like children from the law, their father: they have been schooled not by gentle influences but by force, for they have neglected her who is the true Muse, the companion of reason and philosophy, and have honoured gymnastic more than music.
Some fine day every artist finds himself sitting face to face with his lump of clay, with his empty canvas, with his sheet of blank paper, waiting in vain for the revelation to be made, for the Muse to descend.
This was what your strong, solid, sensible fellows always came to; they paid, in this particular, a larger tribute to pure fancy than the people who were supposed habitually to cultivate that muse.
His own country after all had had most of his life, and his muse, as they said at that time, was essentially American.
Quotes with MUSE (3)
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect t…
Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.
Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me, and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me,Ô, sing, sweet Muse, my soliloquy!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 296 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).