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Webster 1913 Edition


Bugle

Bu′gle

,
Noun.
[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.
E. Phillips.

Bu′gle

,
Noun.
[See
Bugle
a wild ox.]
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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; – called also the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.
[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.

Bu′gle

,
Adj.
[From
Bugle
a bead.]
Jet black.
Bugle eyeballs.”
Shak.

Bu′gle

,
Noun.
[F.
bugle
; cf. It.
bugola
, L.
bugillo
.]
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus
Ajuga
of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
Yellow bugle
,
the
Ajuga chamæpitys
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bugle

BU'GLE

,

Definition 2024


bugle

bugle

See also: bügle

English

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

  1. A horn used by hunters.
  2. (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  3. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
  4. Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
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Verb

bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)

  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle
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Etymology 2

Late Latin bugulus (a woman's ornament).

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

  1. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
    • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
      With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

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Adjective

bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)

  1. jet-black
    • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
      Bugle eyeballs.

Etymology 3

Old English

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

  1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of E. Phillips to this entry?)

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Old French

Etymology

Latin būculus (bullock).

Noun

bugle m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)

  1. bugle (type of horn, often used in battle)
    • Fouke le Fitz Waryn, ed. E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere, ANTS 26-28 (1975).
      oy un chevaler soner un gros bugle
      (I) hear a knight sounding a large bugle