Bugle
adj, name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A horn used by hunters.
- 2 A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
"How well so ever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I still found them secretly attached to all their former finery: they still loved laces, ribbands, bugles and catgut […]"
- 3 A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- 4 a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares wordnet
- 5 A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
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- 6 a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration wordnet
- 7 The sound of something that bugles.
"the bugle of an elk"
- 8 any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover wordnet
- 9 A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
"Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay."
- 1 To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
"“It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated."
- 2 play on a bugle wordnet
- 1 jet-black obsolete
"Bugle eyeballs."
- 1 A village in Treverbyn parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0158).
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More examples"Tom played Reveille on his bugle every morning."
Etymology
From Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin būculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).
From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).
From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
Probably named after the Bugle Inn.