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Muster   /mˈəstər/   Listen
verb
Muster  v. t.  (past & past part. mustered; pres. part. mustering)  
1.
To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.
2.
Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together. "Mustering all its force." "All the gay feathers he could muster."
To muster troops into service (Mil.), to inspect and enter troops on the muster roll of the army.
To muster troops out of service (Mil.), to register them for final payment and discharge.
To muster up, to gather up; to succeed in obtaining; to obtain with some effort or difficulty. "One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits."


Muster  v. i.  To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force. "The mustering squadron."


noun
Muster  n.  
1.
Something shown for imitation; a pattern. (Obs.)
2.
A show; a display. (Obs.)
3.
An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. "The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty." "See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings."
4.
The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army. "And the muster was thirty thousands of men." "Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands."
5.
Any assemblage or display; a gathering. "Of the temporal grandees of the realm, mentof their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid."
Muster book, a book in which military forces are registered.
Muster file, a muster roll.
Muster master (Mil.), one who takes an account of troops, and of their equipment; a mustering officer; an inspector. (Eng.)
Muster roll (Mil.), a list or register of all the men in a company, troop, or regiment, present or accounted for on the day of muster.
To pass muster, to pass through a muster or inspection without censure. "Such excuses will not pass muster with God."


adjective
musth, must  adj.  (Zool.) Being in a condition of dangerous frenzy, usually connected with sexual excitement; said of adult male elephants which become so at irregular intervals, typicaly due to increased testosterone levels.





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"Muster" Quotes from Famous Books



... imitation of man; is it then surprising that the name of these despots became the signal for mad-brained enthusiasm to exercise its outrageous fury; the standard under which cowardice wreaked its cruelty; the watchword for the inhumanity of nations to muster their barbarous strength; a sound which spreads terror wherever its echo could reach; a continual pretext for the most barefaced breaches of public decorum; for the most shameless violation of the moral duties? It was the frightful ...
— The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach
... obvious, is it not?" he returned quietly. "I could not very easily think otherwise. If you will allow me to say so, your device was not quite subtle enough to pass muster. Even had you dropped that bangle by inadvertence—which you did not—you would not, in the ordinary course of things, have sent me off ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... out-of-the-way places,— the bottom of exhausted wells, besmeared by snails, as the History of Velleius Paterculus; or from garrets, where they had been contending with cobwebs and dust, as the Poems of Catullus. So long as the work had an appearance of high antiquity, it passed muster as an old classic; and no doubt could be entertained of its genuineness, if, in addition to its ancient look, it was brought in a fragmentary form. We have no history of the last six fragmentary books of ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross
... oo may see me in Dublin before April ends. I am less out of humour than you would imagine: and if it were not that impertinent people will condole with me, as they used to give me joy, I would value it less. But I will avoid company, and muster up my baggage, and send them next Monday by the carrier to Chester, and come and see my willows, against the expectation of all the world.—Hat care I? Nite ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... in and about New York, comprising the New Jersey division, the Long Island division, Staten Island, Westchester, and New York City, and the total amounts to 10,600 subscribers who are put into communication with each other in the neighborhood of New York alone; and here in England we can only muster 11,000. There are just as many subscribers probably at this moment in New York and its neighborhood as we have in the whole of the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 • Various


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