Word Meanings - MUSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Something shown for imitation; a pattern. 2. A show; a display. Piers Plowman. 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

Additional info about word: MUSTER

1. Something shown for imitation; a pattern. 2. A show; a display. Piers Plowman. 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 registred. -- Muster file, a muster roll. -- Muster master , one who takes an account of troops, and of their equipment; a mustering officer; an inspector. -- Muster roll , 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUSTER)

• Assemble
• Gather
• collect
• congregate
• amass
• muster
• call together
• convoke
• convene
• Cluster
• Bunch
• group
• gathering
• throng
• Collect
• Collate
• gather
• glean
• sum
• infer
• learn
• assemble
• garner
• accumulate
• Concentrate
• converge
• draw
• conglomerate
• condense
• localize
• centralize
• Convene
• meet
• summon
• levy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MUSTER)

• Dismiss
• disperse
• relegate
• remit
• disband

Related words: (words related to MUSTER)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• INFEROBRANCHIATA
  A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.
• INFERRIBLE
  Inferable.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• GLEANING
  The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
• INFERTILELY
  In an infertile manner.
• AMASSMENT
  An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.
• INFERNAL
  1. Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth. 2. Of
• ASSEMBLE
  To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2. (more info) together to collect; L. ad +
• DECOLLATED
  Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• CAMASS
  A blue-flowered liliaceous plant of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. Note: The Eastern cammass is Camassia Fraseri.
• INTHRONG
  To throng or collect together. Fairfax.
• HEREMITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.