muset

From Middle French mussette, from Old French mussette, diminutive of musse, muce (“a hiding place”).

muset (plural musets)

1. (obsolete) A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, 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.

• “muset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• muste, mutes, sumet, u-stem

• musit

Inherited from Old Czech musiti, musěti, borrowed from Old High German muozan (German müssen). Cognate with Polish musieć, Ukrainian мусити (musyty).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmusɛt]

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muset impf

1. must, to have to

• moci
• smět
• mít

• “museti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “museti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “muset”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

muset (indefinite singular muset, definite singular and plural musete)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of musete