muster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.
Inflected forms:
form: musters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: musters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mustering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mustered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mustered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A gathering.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.
1920, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, Issue 13,
The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual […] .
gloss: A gathering.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: A gathering.
pos: noun
examples: Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.
gloss: A gathering.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
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.
gloss: Showing.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
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
gloss: Showing.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
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 […]
gloss: Showing.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
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.
gloss: Showing.
pos: noun
gloss: To show, exhibit.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
gloss: To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
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.
gloss: To enroll (into service).
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To gather or round up livestock.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
transitive
gloss: To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I couldn't muster the courage to tell him.
That which Walter Raleigh had not courage to tell, not one of these men could muster the courage to ask.
She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale
Synonyms: review
parade
military parade
Derived words: bangtail muster
cut the muster
muster-book
muster drill
muster roll
pass muster
musterable
musterer
muster in
muster out
muster up
remuster
unmustered
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: tonen
lang: Dutch
word: vertonen
lang: Finnish
word: malli
lang: German
word: Ausstellung
lang: Italian
word: mostra
lang: Polish
word: pokaz
lang: Russian
word: пока́з
roman: pokáz
lang: Spanish
word: exhibición