BUGLE

n. a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.

2.
n.

A horn used by hunters.

3.
n.

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conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

4.
n.

An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

5.
a.

Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." Shak.

6.
n.

A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpitys.

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