Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who muses; one who acts, speaks, or writes as in a reverie; an absent-minded person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who muses.
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- noun One who
muses .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
Etymologies
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Examples
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From a Poynter Institute column by diversity and ethics muser
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Writer of books, giver of speeches, muser of politics on an unusually active Facebook account, and robo caller on behalf of a conservative group in this year's Virginia governor's race.
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Writer of books, giver of speeches, muser of politics on an unusually active Facebook account.
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Actually, when it comes to being a provincial muser (I love it!)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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All day long there hung about the place the music of chinking tools; and even in the dead of night, the watchman carried his lantern to and fro in the dark settlement and could light the pipe of any midnight muser.
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In the corner of the large and sombre library, with no other light than was afforded by the decaying brands on its ponderous and ample hearth, he would exercise for hours that internal sorcery by which past or imaginary events are presented in action, as it were, to the eye of the muser.
Waverley 2004
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The black-bearded muser put his pipe aside, and from this glowing scene his thoughts flew away into a dark night when he stood in
The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895
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The muser felt two distinct senses, one that a sweet voice had touched the quick of his nature, the other that he had been grandiloquent in his talk while looking at the stars.
Old Ebenezer Opie Percival Read 1895
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In attempting to reproduce various personal experiences on paper, I shall claim the roaming freedom of the fireside muser, for he can in one second skip from Continent to Continent and vault over gaps of thirty years and more, just as the spirit moves him; indeed, to change the metaphor, before one record has played itself out, he can turn on
Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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But this muser could only expect to fall at the front.
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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