Muster
['mʌstə] or ['mʌstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a gathering of military personnel for duty; 'he was thrown in the brig for missing muster'.
(verb.) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc..
(verb.) gather or bring together; 'muster the courage to do something'; 'she rallied her intellect'; 'Summon all your courage'.
Editor: Lois--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
(v. t.) A show; a display.
(v. t.) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
(v. t.) The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
(v. t.) Any assemblage or display; a gathering.
(v. t.) To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.
(v. t.) Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.
(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.
Editor: Vlad
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Assemble, collect, gather, congregate, convene, bring together, call together, get together, muster up.
v. n. Be assembled, meet together.
n. Gathering, assemblage.
Editor: Vanessa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Marshal, collect, assemble, rally, enroll, gather
ANT:Dismiss, disperse, relegate, remit, disband
Inputed by Elizabeth
Definition
v.t. to assemble as troops for duty or inspection: to gather summon (with up).—v.i. to be gathered together as troops.—n. an assembling of troops: a register of troops mustered: assemblage: collected show.—ns. Mus′ter-book (Shak.) a book in which military forces are registered; Mus′ter-file (Shak.) a muster-roll; Mus′ter-mas′ter the master of the muster or who takes an account of troops their arms &c.; Mus′ter-roll a register of the officers and men in each company troop or regiment present at the time of muster.—Pass muster to pass inspection uncensured.
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Examples
- Now, for such a case as the one which has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster all our resources. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- However, Time and the progress of modern enlightenment put things right; and the misalliance passed muster very well. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- No longer in mourning, Miss Bella was dressed in as pretty colours as she could muster. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sometimes since Lizzie was left free by father's death, I have thought that such a young woman might soon acquire more than enough to pass muster. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Harthouse has joined your father's muster-roll. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Gaffer was not there, but a pretty strong muster of Miss Abbey's pupils were, who exhibited, when occasion required, the greatest docility. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Very true, he said; but in your presence, even if I had any faint notion, I could not muster courage to utter it. Plato. The Republic.
- And when he mustered strength to move his wounded head a very little way, and lay it on her bosom, the tears of both fell. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The 21st regiment of infantry, mustered in by me at Mattoon, refused to go into the service with the colonel of their selection in any position. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the room downstairs we mustered a tolerably brilliant number of _beaux_ about us, for Paris; but Paris was not London. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- By five o'clock, which was Mr. Wickfield's dinner-hour, I had mustered up my spirits again, and was ready for my knife and fork. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So they mustered out a party of some six or seven, with guns and dogs, for the hunt. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I relieved him and sent all his men home within a day or two, to be mustered out of service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I mustered one regiment afterwards, when my services for the State were about closed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes, but scandal with it--a hideous mustering of tongues. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- One thing is certain,--that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a _dies ir?_ coming on, sooner or later. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Forward they went--tramp, tramp--with mustering, manifold, slow-filing tread. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had been a brigadier, in command at Cairo, while I was mustering officer at Springfield without any rank. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On mustering our company, we found them to consist of fourteen hundred souls, men, women, and children. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Brigadier-General John Pope was stationed at Springfield, as United States mustering officer, all the time I was in the State service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had charge of mustering these regiments into the State service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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