All 6 Uses

muse
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Seventeenth Summer
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We mused over the thought for a while and soon the quiet stretched into long minutes
Chpt June *

mused = reflected (thought) deeply on a subject
"All I know is that I just want to be happy and turn out good, that's all," Jack mused, half to himself.†
Chpt June
She mused a moment.†
Chpt June
"It's getting on so that summer's almost over," he said, musing.†
Chpt July
So is the flower," she mused, and then suddenly gathered them all together in a crumpled heap.†
Chpt Augu
"I never knew a summer could go so fast," she mused.†
Chpt Augu

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.