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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• muste, mutes, sumet, u-stem

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Czech

Alternative forms

• musit

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

1. must

Conjugation

Conjugation

Infinitive	muset, museti	Active adjective	musející
Verbal noun	—	Passive adjective	—

Present forms	indicative		imperative
	singular	plural	singular	plural
1st person	musím	musíme	—	—
2nd person	musíš	musíte	—	—
3rd person	musí	musejí, musí	—	—

The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive muset.

Participles	Past participles		Passive participles
	singular	plural	singular	plural
masculine animate	musel, musil	museli, musili	—	—
masculine inanimate		musely, musily		—
feminine	musela, musila		—
neuter	muselo, musilo	musela, musila	—	—

Transgressives	present	past
masculine singular	museje	—
feminine + neuter singular	musejíc	—
plural	musejíce	—

See also

• moci
• smět