Crossword clues for mustering
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
n. A bringing together, as of livestock for counting. vb. (present participle of muster English)
Usage examples of "mustering".
The inevitable, plunging fall into bloodshed came presaged by refigured horror, as the intertwined ribbons of conscious life shivered to the blast of a war horn, mustering men to take arms.
The mustering out of the volunteers about the time this opposition was approaching what appeared to be a climax, causing the removal from the service of the colored officers, appeased the wrath of the demon, and the waves of the storm gradually sank to a peace, gratifying, indeed, to those who shuddered to see a black man with shoulder-straps.
Everywhere there was mustering and marching to succour the flower of the English army, which was already in Somersetshire.
As soon as the little stir created in the Hut by the mustering of the men was over, a stillness as profound as that which had preceded the alarm reigned around the place.
She followed the form with well-hidden impatience, mustering one of her thin smiles.
Bernard, to learn what barons were certainly mustering their vassals for overseas, what the tithes would be.
On the 25th July, 1598, the lords of the council wrote to the mayor calling upon him to see that some twelve or sixteen vessels were provided with ordnance and powder for the defence of the Thames, and the court of Common Council at once took the necessary steps for fitting out the ships as well as for mustering a force of 3,000 men, afterwards raised to 6,000.
Grant acted as mustering officer until, being commissioned colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois Volunteers, he took the field.
Bronzewing trailing after him looking more like a worn-out working bullock than the smart animal that had left the station for the mustering camp three days before.
George Tregaskis, who was thrown from his horse out mustering when the clumsy brute put his foot in a hole?
That was at the beginning when they were mustering in the soldiers to fight the War.
She wondered why, but she had to greet her principal guests, mustering all her assurance so she would get it right.
Wellington is mustering the army as quickly as he can, and intelligence officers have been sent everywhere to find out what they may.
Here in the northward regions were the mines and forges, and the musterings of long-planned war.
Conceivably, the ganconer had long since followed eastward to the musterings in Namarre.