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.