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 Mus·ter n.
 1. Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [Obs.]
 2. A show; a display. [Obs.]
 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 registered.
 Muster file, a muster roll.
 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.