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Muʹsits or Musets

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Gaps in a hedge; places through which a hare makes his way to escape the hounds.

“The many musits through the which he goes

Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.”


Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis.

The passing of the hare through these gaps is termed musing. The word is from musse (old French), a little hole.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Museum
Mushroom (an archaic form is mushrump)
Music
Music
Music of the Spheres
Musical Notation
Musical Small - coal Man (The)
Musicians
Musidora
Musits or Musets
Musket
Muslin
Musnud
Muspel
Muspelheim
Mustard
Mustard
Musulman (plural, Musulmans or Moslems)
Mutantur
Mute as a Fish