† musien.
Scottish. Chiefly poetic. Obsolete.
= muse n.1 2a.
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1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Eiiijv If the plaintife Poet shoulde Besing his musies horce.
1785 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 124 My musie, tir'd wi' mony a sonnet On gown, an' ban', an' douse black bonnet.
1839 H. F. Gould Epist. to Friend 17, in Poems I. 227 My Musie's coy, as ye maun see, And mickle seeks to shun me.
1874 B. P. Shillaber Robert Burns 1, in Lines in Pleasant Places 82 My Musie, at your invitation, Pricked up her ears with animation.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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