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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
musing

	Muse \Muse\, v. i. [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, n.]
   1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
      "Thereon mused he." --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]

            He mused upon some dangerous plot.    --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To wonder. [Obs.] --Spenser. --B. Jonson.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To consider; meditate; ruminate. See Ponder.
        [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
musing

	musing \musing\ adj.
   Thinking long and intensely.

   Syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive,
        pondering, reflective, ruminative.
        [WordNet 1.5]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
musing

	musing
     adj : persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: brooding, broody,
            contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering,
            reflective, ruminative]
     n : a calm lengthy intent consideration [syn: contemplation, reflection,
          reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
musing

	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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