Bugle
Bu·gle
Bugle
n.
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
Bugle
n.
- A horn used by hunters.
- 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle. (Mus.)
Bugle
n.
- An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
Bugle
a.
- Jet black.
Bugle
n.
- A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. (Bot.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Yellow bugle
- the Ajuga chamæpitys.