What does "bugle" mean?
Bugle: A horn used by hunters.
Additional senses
- 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
- 3.An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
- 4.Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." Shak.
- 5.A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpitys.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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