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BUGLE
bugle
(noun) a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
bugle
(noun) a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
bugle, bugleweed
(noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
bugle
(verb) play on a bugle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
A horn used by hunters.
(music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
Synonyms: bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine
Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
Synonyms
• (shaped like a bugle): cone, funnel
Hypernyms
• musical instrument
Coordinate terms
• trumpet
Verb
bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle
Synonyms
• trumpet
Etymology 2
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
Adjective
bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)
(obsolete) jet-black
Etymology 3
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
Anagrams
• bulge
Source: Wiktionary
Bu"gle, n. Etym: [OE. bugle buffalo, buffalo's horn, OF. bugle, fr. L. buculus a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos ox. See Cow the animal.]
Definition: A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.
Bu"gle, n. Etym: [See Bugle a wild ox.]
1. A horn used by hunters.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.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, n. Etym: [LL. bugulus a woman's ornament: cf. G. bĂĽgel a bent piece of metal or wood, fr. the same root as G. biegen to bend, E. bow to bend.]
Definition: An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
Bu"gle, a. Etym: [From Bugle a bead.]
Definition: Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." Shak.
Bu"gle, n. Etym: [F. bugle; cf. It. bugola, L. bugillo.] (Bot.)
Definition: A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpitys.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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