Sekirov Dictionary

muster

UK /ˈmʌstə/US /ˈmʌstɚ/

noun 11
verb 6
forms 5
phrases 4

noun11

A gathering.
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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. — 1743
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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. — 1597
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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. — 1594
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(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. — 2006
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A group of peafowl, storks or sometimes other birds.
- The muster of peafowl, known to occasionally wander off, made it unusually far this time. — 2024
Showing.
Synonym of mustee.
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(no longer used) 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 […] — 1590
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(no longer used) 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 — 1773
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(no longer used) 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: […] — 1770

verb6

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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.
- The whole male population, men and boys, mustered on the top of the hill. — 1900
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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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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 through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
(Australia, New-Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
(US) To enroll (into service).
(no longer used) To show, exhibit.

forms

mustered · mustering · mustereth · musters · musterest

Phrases with muster

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