Meaning of Muster | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gathering.
2. An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
3. Synonym of mustee.
4. An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
5. The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
6. A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
   Australia, New-Zealand
7. Showing.
   obsolete
8. Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
   obsolete
9. A sample of goods.
   obsolete
10. An act of showing something; a display.
    obsolete
11. A collection of peafowl. (not a term used in zoology)

Equivalents

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 […] .”

“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.”

“Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.”

“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.”

“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”

“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 […]”

“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.”

“The next, the Quadroon, from the white and mulatto woman. The third descent, from a white and quadroon, is called a muster; from the fourth, between a white and a muster, springs the musteephinas and the fifth descent, viz. from a white and musteephina, is white by law, and of free birth; indeed the two latter classes are as white as a European.”

“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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