All 8 Uses

muse
in
New Moon
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"It's just so difficult to understand, even now," Aro mused,
Chpt 21 *

mused = thought
"You know my father was a clergyman," he mused as he cleaned the table carefully, rubbing everything down with wet gauze, and then doing it again.†
Chpt 2
"It was a year ago yesterday that I had my first day here," I mused.†
Chpt 6
"I like Tanya very much," he mused.†
Chpt 10
"So what do we do now?" she mused.†
Chpt 17
I didn't feel a thing—they're very good," he mused, closing his eyes again and pressing his lips against my hair.†
Chpt 20
"I am gratified by his success," Aro mused.†
Chpt 21
"How strange," I mused.†
Chpt 23

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)
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.