bugle — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A horn used by hunters.

2. A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series

   Broader terms

   musical instrumentwind instrumentbrass instrument

3. The sound of something that bugles.

   Examples

   the bugle of an elk

4. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

   Examples

   Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.

   More examples (2)

   The tongue so rough, that were it licks, it fetches blood. The Greeks used not these, nor Bugles in Physick, not having tried their vertue; though Indian-woods are full of such, yet parts of them are of more efficacy in medicine, (it is thought) than any part of ordinary Oxen.

   All in the merry strand, With the ran, ran tan, And the tippy, tippy tran, And away with the royal bow! wow! wow! And the riddle diddle do, And the bugle's horn, For into the woods we'll run, brave boys, And into the woods we'll run.

   a hunting horn, origin. made of the horn of a "bugle" or wild ox

Verb

1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

   Synonyms

   trumpet

   Examples

   “It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.

Noun

1. A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   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 […]

   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.

   Billionaires wear hoodies and sneakers, not taffeta and bugle beads.

Adjective

1. jet-black

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   Bugle eyeballs.

Noun

1. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

   Synonyms

   bugleweedcarpet bugleground pinecommon bugle

Noun

1. a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares

   Broader terms

   brassbrass instrument

2. any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover

   Synonyms

   bugleweed

   Broader terms

   herbherbaceous plant

3. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration

   Broader terms

   bead

Verb

1. play on a bugle

   Broader terms

   playspiel