The raising of a host or armed multitude; hostile encounter or array, raid; an encampment; (formerly, esp. in Ireland) a military expedition.

The action of levy, v. in its various senses.

A large amount, number, or quantity of a thing or things; a mass; a collection; a heap.

Scottish. The levy or raising of forces. Obsolete. rare.

The action of levying. The action of enrolling or collecting men for war or other purposes.

The calling forth of a military force, the arming of the militia; esp. in historical phrase, Commission of Array.

A Hudibrastic expression for: Acting or playing the colonel; in later times, sometimes taken humorously as ‘trying to raise a regiment, beating about…

= mobilization, n. 2a.

a levy of all the able-bodied men in a country or district for military service.

Mass mobilization, originally in Revolutionary France, in response to invasion; = levy, n.1 3. Also figurative.

The process of arraying; muster of a force; array.

Military. The action or process of preparing or organizing an army, fleet, etc., for war. Also in extended use.

The action or an act of summoning a person or group out; an instance of being summoned out.

The action of mobilize, v.1; an instance of this.