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Definition
noun (English)
1. A gathering.Examples: "Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily."; "And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen […]"; "2010, Ohtar, "Enthroned", Slechtvalk, A Forlorn Throne. To shorten his way and to hasten for the muster he takes a long lost road."
2. A gathering.Examples: "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."AustraliaNew-Zealand
3. Showing.Examples: "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"obsolete
4. Showing.Examples: "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: […]"; "A letter from Mr. Downie, dated 14th of January 1807, acknowledging the receipt of one from the plaintiff, transmitting musters of silk, and authorizing the plaintiff, on certain conditions, to proceed in his speculation […]"obsolete
5. Showing.Examples: "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 […]"; "And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit.obsoletetransitive
2. (intransitive) 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.Examples: "We were then in the third week of November; but, we took our measures so vigorously, and were so well seconded by the friends in whom we confided, that there was still a week of the month unexpired, when our party all came down together merrily, and mustered in the haunted house."; "The whole male population, men and boys, mustered on the top of the hill."intransitive
3. (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.Examples: "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."Synonyms: rally, paradetransitive
4. (transitive, US) To enroll (into service).UStransitive
5. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.AustraliaNew-Zealandtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary