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muse | muke |

As nouns the difference between muse and muke

is that muse is while muke is or muke can be (chinese mythology) a kind of tree spirit.

muse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) muse, from (etyl) .

Noun

(s)
  • A source of inspiration.
  • (archaic) A poet; a bard.
    • (Milton)
    Usage notes
    The plural musae'' can also be found, though it is much rarer than ''muses .
    Related terms
    * museum * music

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1340. From (etyl) muser.

    Verb

    (mus)
  • To become lost in thought, to ponder.
  • To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
  • * (seeCites)
  • To think on; to meditate on.
  • * (rfdate) Thomson
    • Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
  • To wonder at.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Related terms
    * muser * musing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse , ne word to creature spake.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:
    • He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) musse. See muset.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
    • Find a hare without a muse . (old proverb)

    Anagrams

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    muke

    English

    Etymology 1

    Cf. moke, mook

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0802133517&id=zJs2pCV0kD4C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=muke&sig=2E7pkTLvarxol5BNZ63Sbxfh9kg]
    • Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke', he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a ' muke , he is a serious guy.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl), perhaps .

    Noun

    (muke)
  • (Chinese mythology) A kind of tree spirit.
  • * 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0520234081&id=Qyz5I7fi4PQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA93&printsec=8&dq=muke&sig=JY79_rk9YR_usCiystUTxqVr9RQ]
    • According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang,'' the ''muke'''/shanzao'' likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling ''shandu'' and '''''muke'' both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ''ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.
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