Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- noun A young bull.
- To sound a bugle.
- noun A hunting-horn. Also called
bugle-horn . - noun A military musical wind-instrument of brass, once or more curved, sometimes furnished with keys or valves, so as to be capable of producing all the notes of the scale.
- noun The popular English name for a common low labiate plant of Europe, Ajuga reptans.
- noun A shining elongated glass bead, usually black, used in decorating female apparel: as, “bugle-bracelet,”
- Having the color of a glass bugle; jet-black: as, “bugle eyeballs,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- noun A horn used by hunters.
- noun (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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the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 . - noun An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
- adjective Jet black.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
- noun the
Ajuga chamæpitys .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music a simple
brass instrument consisting of ahorn with novalves , playing onlypitches in its harmonic series - noun An often-
cultivated plant in the familyLamiaceae . - noun anything shaped like a bugle, round or
conical and having abell on one end - noun a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- verb To
announce ,sing , orcry in the manner of a musical bugle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
- 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
- verb play on a bugle
Etymologies
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Examples
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I received that bugle from a brave Scot who dwells amongst the eastern mountains; and who gave it to me to assure the earl of Mar that I came from him.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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The music of the evening bugle is still a pleasant note in my ears, as well as that of the eight o'clock curfew bell, from the tower of Old St Nicholas.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor 1874
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F. Godefroy [9] gives quotations from early F.ench which show that, as in England, the word bugle was frequently used as an adjective, and as a verb: -- "IIII cors buglieres fist soner de randon" (_Quatre fils Aymon_, ed.P. Tarbé, p. 32), and "I grant cor buglerenc fit en sa tor soner" (_Aiol_,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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These parties conceal themselves at their respective stations, remain silent, and wait for the signal from the bugle, which is to be given at the hour of daybreak.
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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Without possessing the volume of classical bass voices, the tone of it was pleasing from a slightly muffled quality like that of an English bugle, which is firm and sweet, strong but velvety.
An Old Maid Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Without possessing the volume of classical bass voices, the tone of it was pleasing from a slightly muffled quality like that of an English bugle, which is firm and sweet, strong but velvety.
The Jealousies of a Country Town Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The bugle is a warning sounds from 13th century to warn of an ivasion ... as the war was approaching an arrow struck the trumpeters throught and the song ends apprutly mid note.
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The bugle is a warning sounds from 13th century to warn of an ivasion ... as the war was approaching an arrow struck the trumpeters throught and the song ends apprutly mid note.
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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English name "bugle" is also given to a common labiate plant, the _Ajuga reptans_, not to be confused with the "Bugloss" or _Anchusa officinalis_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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During the middle ages, the word "bugle" was applied to the ox and also to its horns, whether used as musical instruments or for drinking.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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