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

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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

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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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.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. bügel 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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