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[Early mod. E. also mous ter; exhibit. He mustered his miracles amonge many men, And to the pepull he preched. York Plays , p. 481. So dide Galashin that often was he shewed, and must red with the fynger on bot he sides. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 407. 2. To bring together into a group or body for inspection, especially with a view to employing in or discharging from military service; in general, to collect, a emble, or array. Compare muster, n., 3. Thei moustred and a embled all the peple that the i myght gete. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 560. Gentlemen, will you go muster men? Shak., Rich. II., ii. 2. 108. Wherewith Indignation and Griefe mustering greater multitudes of feare full, vnquiet, enraged thoughts in his heart. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 359. All the gay feathers he could muster. Sir R. L'Estrange. To muster in, to muster into service, to bring before the enrolling officers and register the names of; receive as recruits. To muster out, to muster out of service, to bring together, as soldiers, that they may be discharged; discharge from military service. - To muster the watch, to call the roll of the men in a watch. To muster up, to gather; collect; summon up: now generally in a figurative sense: as, to muster up courage. To muster up our Rhimes, without our Reason, And forage for an Audience out of Season. Congreve, Pyrrhus, Prol. One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightline to engage in a game of forfeits. Hazlitt . =Syn. 2. To call together, get together, gather, convene, congregate. II. in trans. 1t. To show; appear. Vndir an olde pore abyte [habit] regneth ofte Grete vurtew, thogh it mostre poorely. Book of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 105. 2. To a emble; meet in one place, as soldiers; in general, to collect. And so they went and most red before the Castil of Arde, the whiche was well furny hed with Engly hemen. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. ccliv. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary muster Why does my blood thus muster to my heart? Shak., M. for M., ii. 4. 20. Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan, or squadron tramping. Scott, L. of the L., i. 31. What marvels manifold Seemed silently to muster! Lowell, Gold Egg. muster (mus'tèr), n. [Early mod. E. also mous ter, mowster; moustre (= MD. monster = MLG. LG. munster = G. muster = Sw. Dan. mönster), see him shoote. Hall , quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 130. The most untowardly among them [boys in Devon and Cornwall] will not as readily give you a muster (or trial) of this exercise as you are prone to require it. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 146. There was a splendid lunch laid out in the parlor, with all the old silver in muster, and with all the delicacies that Boston confectioners and caterers could furnish. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 567. 2. A pattern; a sample. Forasmuch as it is reported that the Woollen clothes died in Turkie bee most excellently died, you shall send home into this real me certaine Mousters or pieces of Shew. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 162. These man-milliners generally require what they call a muster , or pattern, which they. reproduce exactly. Tomes , American in Japan (1857), p. 183. 3. A gathering of persons, as of troops for review or inspection, or in demonstration of strength; an a embling in force or in array; an array; an a emblage. The mene peple that hadde no myster of bateile, the kynge made hem to a-bide by an hill, and made a mustre of armed peple. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 658. Of the temporal grandees of the realm and of their wives and daughters the muster was great and splendid. Macaulay . A gathering of happine , a concentration and combination of pleasant details, a throng of glad faces, a muster of elated hearts. Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, xv. 4. A register or roll of troops mustered; also, the troops enrolled. Ye publish the musters of your own bands. Hooker , Eccles. Polity. That Mustapha was forced to remoue, mi ing fortie you sand of his first musters . Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 286. 5. In hunting , a company or flock of peacocks. Strutt . IMG:content-1139.png:[blocks in formation] Tarpaulin muster, a joint contribution by a number of persons: a whalers' expre ion. - To pa muster, to pa Inspection; pa without censure, as one among a number on inspection; be allowed to pa . Double-dealers may pa muster for a while; but all parties wash their hands of them in the conclusion. Sir R. L'Estrange. muster-book (mus'tėr-bük), n. A book in which muster-rolls are written.