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- 1 A gathering.; An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
"She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers."
- 2 Synonym of mustee.
"The next, the Quadroon, from the white and mulatto woman. The third descent, from a white and quadroon, is called a muster; from the fourth, between a white and a muster, springs the musteephinas and the fifth descent, viz. from a white and musteephina, is white by law, and of free birth; indeed the two latter classes are as white as a European."
- 3 compulsory military service wordnet
- 4 A gathering.; An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
"Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily."
- 5 a gathering of military personnel for duty wordnet
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- 6 A gathering.; The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
"Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands."
- 7 A gathering.; A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc. Australia, New-Zealand
"McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert."
- 8 Showing.; Something shown for imitation; a pattern. obsolete
"And this is the more ſurprizing, as he [the Indian tailor] never meaſures you; he only aſks "maſter for muſter," as he terms it, that is, for a pattern"
- 9 Showing.; A sample of goods. obsolete
"The beasts they saw here were hogs and little dogs, and they found some hens; here also they found a muster of cloves, ginger, and cinnamon; though the cinnamon was not of the best: […]"
- 10 Showing.; An act of showing something; a display. obsolete
"Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland […]"
- 11 Showing.; A collection of peafowl. (not a term used in zoology)
- 1 To show, exhibit. obsolete, transitive
- 2 call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. wordnet
- 3 To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. intransitive
"We were then in the third week of November; but, we took our measures so vigorously, and were so well seconded by the friends in whom we confided, that there was still a week of the month unexpired, when our party all came down together merrily, and mustered in the haunted house."
- 4 gather or bring together wordnet
- 5 To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc. transitive
"12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks."
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- 6 To enroll (into service). US, transitive
- 7 To gather or round up livestock. Australia, New-Zealand, transitive
- 8 To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up. transitive
"I couldn't muster the courage to tell him."
Etymology
From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.
From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.
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