Meaning of BUGLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'byoogul
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- [n] a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
- [n] a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
- [n] any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
- [v] play on a bugle
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| | Synonyms: | | bugleweed |
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| | See Also: | | Ajuga, Ajuga chamaepitys, Ajuga genevensis, Ajuga pyramidalis, Ajuga reptans, bead, blue bugle, brass, creeping bugle, erect bugle, genus Ajuga, ground pine, herb, herbaceous plant, play, pyramid bugle, spiel, yellow bugle | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bu"gle\, n. [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\, n. [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in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called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\, n. [LL. bugulus a woman's ornament: cf. G.
b["u]gel 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\, a. [From {Bugle} a bead.]
Jet black. ``Bugle eyeballs.'' --Shak.
\Bu"gle\, n. [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 cham[ae]pitys}.
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