BUGLED

Verb

bugled

simple past tense and past participle of bugle

Adjective

bugled (comparative more bugled, superlative most bugled)

Ornamented with bugles.

Played by a bugle.

Anagrams

• bludge, bulged

Source: Wiktionary


Bu"gled, a.

Definition: Ornamented with bugles.

BUGLE

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conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.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