muse

v

1. meditate, contemplate, reflect, ponder, brood, mull over, dwell on; cogitate, ruminate, be in a brown study, chew, chew one's cud; deliberate, excogitate, consider, take to heart, Archaic. perpend; weigh, revolve, turn over, review, study, evaluate, con; think about or over, cerebrate, be abstracted, be lost in thought, have one's mind on; put one's mind to, concentrate, focus.

2. wonder about, question, query, examine; speculate, surmise, suppose, conjecture, theorize, hypothesize; conceive, imagine, fancy, form a notion of, guess, Inf. figure, Inf. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. reckon; daydream, dream, be in a reverie, gaze out the window, be in a trance.