Crossword clues for mustered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muster \Mus"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Mustering.] [OE. mustren, prop., to show, OF. mostrer, mustrer, moustrer, monstrer, F. montrer, fr. L. monstrare to show. See Monster.]
To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.
--Spenser.-
Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together. ``Mustering all its force.''
--Cowper.All the gay feathers he could muster.
--L'Estrange.To muster troops into service (Mil.), to inspect and enter troops on the muster roll of the army.
To muster troops out of service (Mil.), to register them for final payment and discharge.
To muster up, to gather up; to succeed in obtaining; to obtain with some effort or difficulty.
One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits.
--Hazlitt.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: muster)
Usage examples of "mustered".
Some of their haunted light shone in his eyes as he gathered frayed nerves and related details of the Alliance armed force now mustered and marching from Morvain.
Far too likely, the clan company mustered from Halwythwood might not leave the barrens alive.
Jieret rested the arrow across his bent knees, then mustered the brute will to survey the landscape before him.
Even discounting the stout, knotted cords, he doubted he could have mustered the strength to roll his battered frame over.
Ranging harmonics pealed forth and mustered the wind, which arose into whirling gyration.
Kharadmon mustered his will like a knife, and applied himself strengthening ciphers.
While other men mustered to stay on as escort, his impatient survey combed over the slope risen in tiers of stepped ledges.
He clung to hope, mustered bare-handed resource for as long as he could stay upright.
Again, he blazed with the ripe triumph of the moment when he had mustered his shadows and raised his bared steel to annihilate his half brother.
During the months the Alliance host mustered, Arithon had applied himself, unstinting, to life.
The sorry truth scourged him, that his last mustered strength seemed insufficient to drag himself back to his feet.
Breath hissed between his clenched teeth, the Mad Prophet mustered his assemblage of joints and plaintively shambled erect.
They mustered outside Carnutum at the beginning of March for a winter campaign.
It soon became evident that these regiments would be mustered out of the service, as they had proven themselves no more immune, so far as it could be determined from the facts, than other troops.
Besides these four colored regiments of immunes, so-called, there were other State organizations composed entirely of colored men, mustered into the United States service, as for example the Ninth Battalion of the Ohio National Guard.