Muster

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( v. t.) The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.

(2): ( v. t.) A show; a display.

(3): ( v. t.) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

(4): ( v. t.) Any assemblage or display; a gathering.

(5): ( v. t.) To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.

(6): ( v. t.) Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.

(7): ( v. t.) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.

(8): ( v. i.) 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.

King James Dictionary [2]

Mus'Ter, L. monstro, to show. Properly, to collect troops for review, parade and exercise but in general, to collect or assemble troops, persons or things. The officers muster their soldiers regularly they muster all their forces. The philosopher musters all the wise sayings of the ancients.

Mus'Ter, To assemble to meet in one place.

Mus'Ter, n. L. monstrum, a show or prodigy.

1. An assembling of troops for review, or a review of troops under arms. 2. A register or roll of troops mustered.

Ye publish the musters of your own bands.

3. A collection, or the act of collecting.

To pass muster, to be approved or allowed.

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