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Musing   /mjˈuzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Muse  v. t.  
1.
To think on; to meditate on. "Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise."
2.
To wonder at. (Obs.)



Muse  v. i.  (past & past part. mused; pres. part. musing)  
1.
To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. "Thereon mused he." "He mused upon some dangerous plot."
2.
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.
3.
To wonder. (Obs.)
Synonyms: To consider; meditate; ruminate. See Ponder.



adjective
musing  adj.  Thinking long and intensely.
Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative.






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"Musing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bolko dropped as he finished the narrative. The evening twilight thickened before his eyes. He sank into a solemn musing. When he awoke from it, Hubert was ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various

... musing upon the singular character of this triangular war, when my reverie was disturbed by the hoof strokes of a horse. The sounds came from a distance, outside the village; the strokes were those of ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... the lady, and her tone as she said this, did not by any means contribute to Mr Clam's satisfaction. However, he perceived at once that further attempts to penetrate the mystery would be useless, and he kept musing on the strangeness of the circumstance, as profoundly puzzled as before. On getting into the barrack-yard, the lady muffled herself in her veil more closely than ever, and asked one of the soldiers she met in the archway, if Captain Hope ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various

... not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of ...
— Milton • Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

... them stood their solitary sentinel, looking with dreamy gaze over the fair landscape, and musing, perchance, of far-off England—of his distant love, or of wife and children, and wondering, very likely, whether, the war ended, he would live to return, with all the prestige of a warrior of the Cross, and tell of the marvels of Eastern climes ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake


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