musing

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The point of this musing is the upcoming ninth birthday of my old use by my wife as her word processing and email machine - tasks which it performs for her purposes almost as satisfactorily as newer hardware would.

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  1. adjective Deep in thought; contemplative.
  2. noun Contemplation; meditation.
  3. noun A product of contemplation; a thought. "an elegant tapestry of quotations, musings, aphorisms, and autobiographical reflections” (James Atlas).

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  • But the point of this musing is not to make any pronouncements about Palin in particular, but rather to consider how we arrived at this point as a nation and why her vice-presidential nomination as the mother of five children is such a news-dominating conversation. —  Radical Womanhood
  • What prompts this musing is the news last Friday of the deaths of Norm Van Lier and Johnny
  • And "while I was musing, the fire burned," more fiercely than ever. —  Daisy
  • "Much-musing, to the woodland nymphs I pray And Mars, the guardian of the Thracian plain With favouring grace the omen to allay And bless the dreadful vision. —  The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
  • And again Helmsley smiled Everybody would talk of it," proceeded Owlett, lost in rapturous musing--"The disposal of a rich man's millions is always a most interesting subject of conversation! —  The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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  1. from Middle English musyng; verbal noun of muse, v.
 

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