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muster

noun
/ˈmʌstə/UK/ˈmʌstɚ/US/ˈmʊstə/

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.

  1. derived from mōnstrō
  2. derived from monstrer
  3. derived from mostrer
  4. inherited from musteren

Definitions

  1. A gathering.

    • 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.

  2. Showing.

    • 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

  3. To show, exhibit.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a…

      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.

      • The whole male population, men and boys, mustered on the top of the hill.

    2. To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders,…

      To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.

    3. To enroll (into service).

    4. To gather or round up livestock.

    5. To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy…

      To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up.

      • 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

    6. Synonym of mustee.

      • Mixed bloods, they are suspended between two races, — mulattoes, quadroons, musters, mustafinas, cabres, griffies, zambis, quatravis, tresalvis, coyotes, saltatras, albarassados, cambusos, — neither white nor black, but Negroes.

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Derived

bangtail muster, cut the muster, muster-book, muster drill, muster roll, pass muster, musterable, musterer, muster in, muster out, muster up, remuster, unmustered

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for muster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA