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Muster (?), n. [OE. moustre, OF. mostre, moustre, F. montre, LL. monstra. See Muster, v. t.]
1. Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [Obs.]
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2. A show; a display. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
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3. An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
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The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty. Hawthorne.
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See how in warlike muster they appear,
In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.
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4. The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
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And the muster was thirty thousands of men. Wyclif.
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Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. Hooker.
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5. Any assemblage or display; a gathering.
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Of the temporal grandees of the realm, mentof their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid. Macaulay.
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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.
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Such excuses will not pass muster with God. South.
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Muster, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mustered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mustering.] [OE. mustren, prop., to show, OF. mostrer, mustrer, moustrer, monstrer, F. montrer, fr. L. monstrare to show. See Monster.]
1. To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like. Spenser.
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2. Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together. “Mustering all its force.” Cowper.
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All the gay feathers he could muster. L'Estrange.
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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.
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One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits. Hazlitt.
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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.” Byron.
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