Chapter Muskadel to Mute of M by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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.

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.]

1. To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like. Spenser.

2. 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.

Muster
(Mus"ter), v. i. To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force. "The mustering squadron." Byron.

Mustily
(Mus"ti*ly) a. In a musty state.

Mustiness
(Mus"ti*ness), n. The quality or state of being musty.

Musty
(Mus"ty) a. [Compar. Mustier ; superl. Mustiest.] [From L. mustum must; or perh. fr. E. moist. Cf. Must, n., Moist.]

1. Having the rank, pungent, offensive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey.

2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale.

The proverb is somewhat musty.

Shak.

3. Dull; heavy; spiritless. "That he may not grow musty and unfit for conversation." Addison.

Mutability
(Mu`ta*bil"i*ty) n. [L. mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilité.] The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation.

Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability.

Stillingfleet.

Mutable
(Mu"ta*ble) a. [L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See Move.]