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NOUN (3)

1. a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares;

2. any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover;
[syn: bugle, bugleweed]

3. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration;


VERB (1)

1. play on a bugle;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bugle \Bu"gle\, n. [OE. bugle buffalo, buffalo's horn, OF. bugle, fr. L. buculus a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos ox. See Cow the animal.] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bugle \Bu"gle\, n. [See Bugle a wild ox.] 1. A horn used by hunters. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mus.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bugle \Bu"gle\, n. [LL. bugulus a woman's ornament: cf. G. b["u]gel a bent piece of metal or wood, fr. the same root as G. biegen to bend, E. bow to bend.] An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bugle \Bu"gle\, a. [From Bugle a bead.] Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bugle \Bu"gle\, n. [F. bugle; cf. It. bugola, L. bugillo.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. [1913 Webster] Yellow bugle, the Ajuga cham[ae]pitys. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bugle n 1: a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares 2: any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover [syn: bugle, bugleweed] 3: a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration v 1: play on a bugle