Definition of Mustir
Mus"ter (?), n. [OE. moustre,
OF. mostre, moustre, F. montre, LL.
monstra. See Muster, v. t.]
1. Something shown for imitation; a
pattern. [Obs.]
2. A show; a display. [Obs.] Piers
Plowman.
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. 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. 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. [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.
Such excuses will not pass muster with
God. South.
Mus"ter, 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.
2. Hence: To summon together; to enroll in
service; to get together. "Mustering all its force."
Cowper.
All the gay feathers he could
muster. L'Estrange.
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.
One of those who can muster up sufficient
sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits.
Hazlitt.
Mus"ter, 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
- A show; a display.
- An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
- The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
- Any assemblage or display; a gathering.
- A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists).
- A roundup of cattle grazing over a large area.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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