See Also: muster(1)(dictionary)
muster(2)(dictionary)
muster 2, noun(dictionary)
muster 1, verb(dictionary)
MUSTER-ROLL(law)
Boris I(encyclopedia)
Karloff, Boris(dictionary)
Boris Cafe(tourism)
Karloff, Boris(encyclopedia)
Boris (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)

muster(1) (iou) and Boris I (sh)


muster(1) (iou)



muster noun. LME.
[Old French moustre (later Latinized, mod. montre) from Proto-Romance noun from Latin monstrare show.]
a. The action or an act of showing something; manifestation; exhibition, display. LME-M17.
b. A flock of peacocks. rare. LME.
A pattern, a specimen, a sample, latterly only of certain commercial items. LME.
a. An act of mustering soldiers, sailors, etc.; an assembling of people for inspection, verification of numbers, etc.; a roll-call. LME.
b. An act of mustering stock (cattle, sheep, etc.), a round-up of stock. Austral. & NZ. M19.
The number of persons or things mustered or assembled on a particular occasion; an assembly, a collection. LME.
A muster-roll. Formerly also, a census report. M16.
Foll. by out: (a) discharge from service. US. L19.
Phrases: false muster (chiefly Hist.) a fraudulent presentation at a muster, or a fraudulent inclusion in a muster-roll, of men who are not available for service. in muster mustered, assembled for inspection. pass muster, (earlier) pass musters, pass the musters (orig. Military) undergo muster or review without censure; bear examination or inspection, come up to the required standard, be accepted (as the possessor of certain qualities).
Comb.: muster-book a book in which military forces are registered; a book containing the names of the crew of a warship; muster file a muster-roll; muster-master an officer responsible for (the accuracy of) a muster-roll, esp. of some portion of an army; muster-mastership Hist. the function or position of a muster-master; muster-roll (a) an official list of the soldiers in an army or the sailors in a ship's company; a register; (b) Nautical the reading of a muster-roll; a roll-call.

Boris I (sh)




orig. Mikhail

died May 2, 907, Preslave, Bulg.

Khan of Bulgaria (852-89).

He resolved to use Christianity to unite his ethnically divided country, and an unsuccessful war with the Byzantines led to his baptism in the Orthodox faith (864). Boris's attempt to enforce mass baptism set off a pagan rebellion, which he quelled, and he helped establish the Bulgarian church. He sponsored missionaries to foster Slavic learning and the use of the Old Church Slavic language. He abdicated in 889 to become a monk but returned to drive his reactionary son Vladimir from the throne. After installing another son, Simeon I, as khan, Boris went back to his monastery. He was later made an Orthodox saint.