About The Word Bugle
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Bugle
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What's The Definition Of Bugle?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Bugle: bugleweed Related Terms | Find terms related to Bugle: alpenhorn | alphorn | althorn | alto horn | antlia | bagpipe | ballad horn | baritone | bass horn | bay | beak | beep | beezer | bell | bill | blare | blast | blat | blow | blow a horn | blow the horn | brass choir | brass wind | brasses | brass-wind instrument | bray | bugle horn | carillon | clarion | conk | cornet | cornet-a-pistons | corno di caccia | cornopean | doodle | double-bell euphonium | double-tongue | euphonium | fife | flute | helicon | honk | horn | hunting horn | key trumpet | lip | lituus | lur | mellophone | muffle | muzzle | nares | neb | nib | nose | nostrils | nozzle | olfactory organ | ophicleide | orchestral horn | peal | pecker | pipe | pocket trumpet | post horn | proboscis | rhinarium | rostrum | sackbut | saxhorn | saxtuba | schnozzle | serpent | shriek | slide trombone | sliphorn | smeller | snoot | snout | sound | sound a tattoo | sound taps | sousaphone | squeal | tenor tuba | tongue | toot | tootle | triple-tongue | tromba | trombone | trumpet | trunk | tuba | tweedle | valve trombone | valve trumpet | whistle | wind | wind the horn 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 Bugle In Webster's Dictionary \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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the {Kent bugle}.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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