museum

[Latin, from Greek mouse i on =& temple of the muses; mous a a muse. A room or building used as a repository for works of art or science; a collection or repository of natural, scijects illustrating the arts, sciences, manufactures, or natural history of the world, or some particular part. particularly in Greece, The aly, and Italy. No entific, or literary curiosities; a collection of ob sacrifices were offered to them; but the poets invariably prefaced their compositions with a solemn invocation for the aid and inspiration of the muses. *muse-rid, a. Po e ed or influenced by poetic inspiration. (Pope: Dunciad , ii. 37.) müşe (2), s. [MUSE, v.] 1. The act or state of musing; abstraction of mind, deep thought, a brown study. "Phocion walked all alone upon the scaffold where the players played, and was in great muse with himself." IMG:content-1497.png:[blocks in formation] substances, goes to form the muscles. great source of the fibrin and albumen of the blood of man and of the carnivorous animals." -Flint : Physiol . of Man , 1. 90.