MUSTER

conscription, muster, draft, selective service

(noun) compulsory military service

muster

(noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty; “he was thrown in the brig for missing muster”

muster

(verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.

muster, rally, summon, come up, muster up

(verb) gather or bring together; “muster the courage to do something”; “she rallied her intellect”; “Summon all your courage”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

muster (plural musters)

Gathering.

An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. [from 14th c.]

(chiefly military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. [from 15th c.]

The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.

(Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc. [from 19th c.]

Showing.

(obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [15th-19th c.]

A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists). [from 15th c.]

Verb

muster (third-person singular simple present musters, present participle mustering, simple past and past participle mustered)

(transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit. [15th-17th c.]

(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. [from 15th c.]

(transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc. [from 15th c.]

(transitive, US) To enroll (into service). [from 19th c.]

(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.

Synonyms

• (gather, unite, especially troops): rally

Etymology 2

Noun

muster (plural musters)

synonym of mustee

Anagrams

• Sumter, estrum, mustre, muters, stumer, turmes

Source: Wiktionary

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Mus"ter, n. Etym: [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 registred.

– 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.] Etym: [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.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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