Muster, vb. 1) trans. to collect, to assemble (troops): Lucr. 773. LLL V, 2, 85. R2 II, 2, 108. III, 3, 86. H6A I, 1, 101. H6C II, 1, 112. R3 IV, 3, 56. IV, 4, 496. Cor. IV, 5, 134. Cymb. IV, 2, 344. IV, 4, 10 (not --ed among the bands, i. e. not entered on the muster-roll). With “up:” R2 II, 2, 118. H6C IV, 8, 11. H6C IV, 8, 11 R3 IV, 4, 489. Dubious passage: “they wear themselves in the cap of the time, there do m. true gait,” All's II, 1, 55 (some M. Edd. master).
2) intr. to assemble (as troops): “is this Moorfields to m. in?” H8 V, 4, 33. With to, == to repair as to a meeting-place: “they, --ing to the quiet cabinet,” Lucr. 442. “to whose weak ruins m. troops of cares,” Lucr. 442 “why does my blood thus m. to my heart?” Meas. II, 4, 20. “the commoners . . . m. to their captain, the heart,” H4B IV, 3, 120.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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