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▪ I. musing, vbl. n.|ˈmjuːzɪŋ|
[f. muse v. + -ing1.]
†1. Complaining, complaint. Obs.
1388Wyclif Acts xxviii. 29 Jewis wenten out fro hym, and hadden myche questioun, eithir musyng, among hem silf. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxv. 40 Ȝour mvsing wald perss ane hairt of stane.
2. Thoughtful abstraction; the act of meditating or pondering.
c1440Generydes 491 Generydes stode still in grete musyng. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 87 True it is, that much muzing, to some doth good, and to some harme. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 249 The sound Of Bees industrious murmur oft invites To studious musing. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 80 His auditors continued in a kind of respectful musing. 1830J. H. Newman in Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 229 Is not this the meaning of musing—namely, thinking about something or other, we cannot tell what?
b. A fit of thoughtful abstraction; a meditation.
1530Palsgr. 530/2, I dumpe, I fall In a dumpe or musyng upon thynges, je me amuse. 1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 242, I see the House in a great musing. 1711Addison Spect. No. 7 ⁋1 In the midst of these my Musings she desired me to reach her a little Salt upon the Point of my Knife. 1861D. Greenwell Poems 171 Fed With golden musings by our friend that read From out thy chosen Poet.
▪ II. musing, ppl. a.|ˈmjuːzɪŋ|
[f. muse v. + -ing2.]
Given to or characterized by meditation; contemplative; meditative; dreamy.
c1450J. Metham Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 13 But nowe let alle this musyng matere pase. 1530Palsgr. 247/1 Musyng felowe, musart. 1632Milton Penseroso 38 Com, but keep thy wonted state, With eev'n step, and musing gate. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. ii. 179 The musing pilgrim. 1888F. Hume Mme. Midas i. ii, ‘She's a clever woman’, observed Slivers, at length, in a musing sort of tone.
Hence ˈmusingly adv., in a musing manner.
1611Florio, Accigliare,..to looke staringlie or musinglie. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xix, ‘There's one thing’, said Alan, musingly, ‘that naebody kens his name’.
▪ III. musing
obs. variant of meusing. |