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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Muse \Muse\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Musing}.] [F. muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand with open mouth, fr. LL. musus, morsus, muzzle, snout, fr. L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite. See {Morsel}, and cf. {Amuse}, {Muzzle}, noun]
1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. ''Thereon mused he.'' --Chaucer.
He mused upon some dangerous plot. --Sir P. Sidney.
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. --Daniel.
3. To wonder. [Obs.] --Spenser. --B. Jonson.
Syn: To consider; meditate; ruminate. See {Ponder}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
musing \musing\ adjective Thinking long and intensely.
Syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
musing
adjective: persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: {brooding}, {broody}, {contemplative}, {meditative}, {pensive}, {pondering}, {reflective}, {ruminative}]
noun: a calm lengthy intent consideration [syn: {contemplation}, {reflection}, {reflexion}, {rumination}, {thoughtfulness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "musing": Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded, absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness, abstraction, advisement, bemused, bemusement, brooding, brown study, castle-building, close study, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentration, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, consideration, contemplating, contemplation, contemplative, contemplativeness, counsel, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep thought, deliberating, deliberation, deliberative, depth of thought, dream, dreamery, dreamfulness, dreaminess, dreaming, dreamlikeness, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, engrossment, excogitating, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction, half-awake, ideative, in a reverie, in the clouds, introspective, lost, lost in thought, lucubration, meditating, meditation, meditative, melancholy, mental, mooning, moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness, muted ecstasy, napping, nodding, noetic, oblivious, pensive, pensiveness, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, pondering, prehensive, preoccupation, preoccupied, profound thought, rapt, reflecting, reflection, reflective, reflectiveness, reverie, revolving, ruminant, ruminating, rumination, ruminative, serious, sober, somewhere else, speculation, speculative, speculativeness, stargazing, study, taken up, thinking, thought, thoughtful, thoughtfulness, trance, transported, unconscious, weighing, wistful, wistfulness, woolgathering, wrapped in thought
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