musard

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French musard, from muser (“to loiter, trifle”). See muse (intransitive verb).

Noun

musard (plural musards)

1. (obsolete) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “musard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Rudmas, mudars, mudras, mudrās