'Bugle' definitions:

Definition of 'bugle'

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

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]

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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.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]

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]

From: GCIDE

Bugle \Bu"gle\, a. [From Bugle a bead.] Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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]