'Bugle' definitions:
Definition of 'bugle'
(from WordNet)
noun
A brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
noun
Any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover [syn: bugle, bugleweed]
noun
A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
verb
Play on a bugle
Definition of 'Bugle'
From: GCIDE
- Bugle \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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bugle'
From: GCIDE
- Bugle \Bu"gle\, n. [See Bugle a wild ox.]
- 1. A horn used by hunters. [1913 Webster]
- 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bugle'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bugle'
From: GCIDE
- Bugle \Bu"gle\, a. [From Bugle a bead.] Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bugle'
From: GCIDE
- Bugle \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. [1913 Webster]
- Yellow bugle, the Ajuga cham[ae]pitys. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bugle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- brass-wind instrument,
- brasses,
- 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