muster master
檢閱官
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.