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Muster   /mˈəstər/   Listen
Muster

verb
(past & past part. mustered; pres. part. mustering)
1.
Gather or bring together.  Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon.  "She rallied her intellect" , "Summon all your courage"
2.
Call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc..
noun
1.
A gathering of military personnel for duty.
2.
Compulsory military service.  Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service.


Must

adjective
1.
Highly recommended.



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"Muster" Quotes from Famous Books



... treatment with what lightsomeness she could muster; but the odd truth was that she hardly listened to Hugo. Heaven knew that she needed the strong sane arguments, heaven knew that he could state them all unanswerably. And yet, just as she was aware that her woman's feelings about the bunching-room ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... ye have passed away; That on old Bunker's lonely height, In Trenton, and in Monmouth ground, The grass grows green, the harvest bright, Above each soldier's mound. The bugle's wild and warlike blast Shall muster them no more; An army now might thunder past, And they not heed its roar. The starry flag 'neath which they fought, In many a bloody day, From their old graves shall rouse them not; For they have ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... with their kindred, than the men of the host espied a greater company yet coming to meet them: and these were of the folk of the Galtings; and amongst them were ten warriors in their prime, because they had but of late come back from the hunting in the wood and had been belated from the muster of the kindreds; and with them were eight old men and fifteen lads, and eighteen thralls; and the swains and thralls all bore bows besides the swords that they were girt withal, and not all of them had horses, but they who had none rode behind the others: so they joined themselves ...
— The House of the Wolfings - A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse • William Morris
... Germans; and next the band of Galatians, every one in their habiliments of war; and behind these marched the whole army in the same manner as they used to go out to war, and as they used to be put in array by their muster-masters and centurions; these were followed by five hundred of his domestics carrying spices. So they went eight furlongs [12] to Herodium; for there by his own command he was to be buried. And thus ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus
... ready for the most desperate attempts. When the news of this movement reached head-quarters, the commissioners saw that a crisis had come. The mob numbered at least five thousand, while they could not muster at that moment two hundred men. The clerk, Mr. Hawley, went to the commissioners' room, and said: "Gentlemen, the crisis has come. A battle has got to be fought now, and won too, or all is lost." They agreed with him. "But who," they asked, "will lead the comparatively ...
— The Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873 • J.T. Headley


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