bugle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
  2. noun any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
    bugleweed.
  3. noun a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
  4. verb play on a bugle

WordNet

Bu"gle noun
Etymology
OE. bugle buffalo, buffalo's horn, OF. bugle, fr. L. buculus a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos ox. See Cow the animal.
Definitions
  1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.
Bu"gle noun
Etymology
See Bugle a wild ox.
Definitions
  1. A horn used by hunters.
  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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
Bu"gle noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
Bu"gle adjective
Etymology
From Bugle a bead.
Definitions
  1. Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." Shak.
Bu"gle noun
Etymology
F. bugle; cf. It. bugola, L. bugillo.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.

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