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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.
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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; – called also the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
,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)
- 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.
- Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
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Translations
music: simple brass instrument
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plant of the genus Ajuga
anything shaped like a bugle
Verb
bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)
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Etymology 2
Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
- 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.
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
Translations
tubular glass or plastic bead
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Adjective
bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)
- jet-black
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
- Bugle eyeballs.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
Etymology 3
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
Anagrams
Old French
Etymology
Noun
bugle m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)
- 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
- oy un chevaler soner un gros bugle
- Fouke le Fitz Waryn, ed. E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere, ANTS 26-28 (1975).