bugle
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Noun (3)
- a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfaresType of brass, brass instrument
- any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground coverSynonyms: bugleweedType of herb, herbaceous plantKinds erect bugle, pyramid bugle, ground pine, creeping bugleMember of Ajuga, genus Ajuga
- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decorationType of bead
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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. Edward Phillips
Origin: See Bugle a wild ox.
1. A horn used by hunters.
2. Music 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; — called also the Kent bugle.
Origin: LL. bugulus a woman's ornament: cf. G. bügel 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.
Origin: From Bugle a bead.
Jet black. “Bugle eyeballs.” William Shakespeare
Origin: F. bugle; cf. It. bugola, L. bugillo.
Botany A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpitys.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54