1. (n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

2. (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.

3. (n.) A particular power and practice of poetry.

4. (n.) A poet; a bard.

5. (n.) To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.

6. (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.

7. (n.) To wonder.

8. (v. t.) To think on; to meditate on.

9. (v. t.) To wonder at.

10. (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.

11. (n.) Wonder, or admiration.