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 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.
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.