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Gaps in a hedge; places through which a hare makes his way to escape the hounds.
“The many musits through the which he goes
Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.”
Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis.
The passing of the hare through these gaps is termed musing. The word is from musse (old French), a little hole.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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