muset

English

Etymology

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

Noun

muset (plural musets)

  1. A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.
    • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for muset in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from Old High German muozan (German müssen). Cognate with Polish musieć, Ukrainian мусити (musyty).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmusɛt/
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Verb

muset impf

  1. must

Conjugation
Conjugation
Present formsindicativeimperative
singularpluralsingularplural
1st personmusímmusíme——
2nd personmusíšmusíte——
3rd personmusímusejí, musí——
The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive muset.
ParticiplesPast participlesPassive participles
singularpluralsingularplural
masculine animatemusel, musilmuseli, musili——
masculine inanimatemusely, musily—
femininemusela, musilamusely, musily——
neutermuselo, musilomusela, musila——
Transgressivespresentpast
masculine singularmuseje—
feminine + neuter singularmusejíc—
pluralmusejíce—

See also
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