muster

noun musters

1. 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. Australia, New Zealand A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc. 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.
5. obsolete Something shown for imitation; a pattern. 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
6. obsolete A sample of goods. 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: […]
7. obsolete An act of showing something; a display. 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 […]
8. collective A group of peafowl, storks or sometimes other birds. The muster of peafowl, known to occasionally wander off, made it unusually far this time.

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verb musters · mustering · mustered

1. obsolete, transitive To show, exhibit.
2. intransitive 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. 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.
3. transitive To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc. 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 t
4. US, transitive To enroll (into service).
5. Australia, New Zealand, transitive To gather or round up livestock.

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6. transitive To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up. I couldn't muster the courage to tell him.

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noun musters

1. 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

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