All 16 Uses of

muse
in
Anna Karenina

Only, why did he say that?" she mused.†
Part 1

mused = thought -- possibly aloud

When she mused on the past, she dwelt with pleasure, with tenderness, on the memories of her relations with Levin.†
Part 1

"Yes," she mused, "there was something unnatural about Anna Pavlovna, and utterly unlike her good nature, when she said angrily the day before yesterday: 'There, he will keep waiting for you; he wouldn't drink his coffee without you, though he's grown so dreadfully weak.'†
Part 2

But he did not pursue the speculation, and without replying, he fell to musing on a quite different and personal matter.†
Part 3 *

musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud

Levin, unobserved by the peasants, still lay on the haycock, and still looked on and listened and mused.†
Part 3

mused = thought -- possibly aloud

Suppose I am taught," he went on musing, "to shoot; I press the trigger," he said to himself, closing his eyes, "and it turns out I have killed him," Alexey Alexandrovitch said to himself, and he shook his head as though to dispel such silly ideas.†
Part 3

musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud

How often she had mused on the subject, thinking of her friend abroad, Varenka, of her painful state of dependence, how often she had wondered about herself what would become of her if she did not marry, and how often she had argued with her sister about it!†
Part 4

mused = thought -- possibly aloud

And the three women all fell to musing on the same thing.†
Part 6

musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud

"They're all living, they're all enjoying life," Darya Alexandrovna still mused when she had passed the peasant women and was driving uphill again at a trot, seated comfortably on the soft springs of the old carriage, "while I, let out, as it were from prison, from the world of worries that fret me to death, am only looking about me now for an instant.†
Part 6

mused = thought -- possibly aloud

On the way he thought no more of money, but mused on the introduction that awaited him to the Petersburg savant, a writer on sociology, and what he would say to him about his book.†
Part 7

When she poured herself out her usual dose of opium, and thought that she had only to drink off the whole bottle to die, it seemed to her so simple and easy, that she began musing with enjoyment on how he would suffer, and repent and love her memory when it would be too late.†
Part 7

musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud

"Yes, looking at the sky, I thought that the dome that I see is not a deception, and then I thought something, I shirked facing something," he mused.†
Part 8

mused = thought -- possibly aloud

"Your Rambouillet is in full conclave," he said, looking round at all the party; "the graces and the muses."†
Part 2 *

Definitions:

(1) (muse as in: her musings)
reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud
(2) (muse as in: She was his muse)
the source of an artist's inspiration - especially a person or mythological goddess

The 9 muses were the daughters of the Greek gods Zeus & Mnemosyne. Each of the muses was thought to inspire and preside over one of the arts.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rarely, muse is used as a synonym for "poet". In Shakespeare's time, muse could be used in the sense of being astonished or puzzled by something strange or unexpected.