MUSTER

MUSTER. → Of troops 1Sa 14:17; 2Sa 20:4; 1Ki 20:26; 2Ki 25:19; Isa 13:4 → See ARMIES

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muster. Muster, v.t. to review, assemble, raise, gather

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Mus″ter (?), n. [[OE. moustre, OF. mostre, moustre, F. montre, LL. monstra. See Muster, v. t.]] 1. 1. Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
2. 2. A show; a display. Piers Plowman.
3. 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. Hawthorne. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton. 4. 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. Wyclif. Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. Hooker. 5. 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. Macaulay. 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. — 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. South.