muset

English

Etymology

From Middle French mussette, from Old French mussette, diminutive of musse, muce (“a hiding place”).

Noun

muset (plural musets)

1. (obsolete) A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: Richard Field, , →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: , 4th edition, London: J M Dent and Co. , 1896, →OCLC, lines 679-684:

     And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare,
     Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles
     How he outruns the wind and with what care
     He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:
     The many musets through the which he goes
     Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “muset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• muste, mutes, sumet, u-stem

Czech

Alternative forms

• musit

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech musiti, musěti, borrowed from Old High German muozan (German müssen). Cognate with Polish musieć, Ukrainian мусити (musyty).

Pronunciation

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Verb

muset impf

1. must, to have to

Conjugation

See also

• moci
• smět
• mít

Further reading

• museti in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• museti in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• muset in Internetová jazyková příručka

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

muset (indefinite singular muset, definite singular and plural musete)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of musete