5 entries under this word

Bugle

Bū'gle, n.

noun

[O. Fr. bugle, Lat. buculus, a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos, ox.] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. Phillips.

A curved huntsman’s bugle with a flared bell and hanging loops. — Huntsman's Bugle.

Bū'gle or Bū'gle-hôrn, n.

noun

[From bugle, a sort of wild ox, q. v., W. buelin, belonging to a buffalo, bugle-horn, bual, wild ox, bugle-horn.]

Sense 1. A musical wind instrument used in hunting or for military music.

Blow, bugle, blow; set the wild echoes flying. Tennyson.

One blast upon his bugle-horn were worth a thousand men. W. Scott.

Sense 2. A drinking vessel made of horn.

And drinketh of his bugle-horn the wine. Chaucer.

Bū'gle, n.

noun

(bū'gl), n. [L. Lat. bugulus, a female ornament, Ger. bügel, a bent piece of metal or wood.] An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though more commonly black.

Bū'gle, a.

adjective

Jet-black. “Bugle eye-balls.” Shak.

Bū'gle, n.

noun

n. [Fr. bugle, It. bugola, Lat. bugillo.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga, a native of Europe.

Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpithys.