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Bugle : (noun)
1: a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls
and fanfares
2: any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen
herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover [syn: bugleweed]
3: a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for
decoration
(verb)
1: play on a bugle
Based on WordNet 2.0
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KentBugle : \Kent" bu"gle\ [Probably named after a Duke of Kent.]
(Mus.)
A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of
which the performer can play upon every key in the musical
scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle.
--Moore.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bugle : \Bu"gle\, a. [Based on Bugle a bead.]
Jet black. ``Bugle eyeballs.'' --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Yellow bugle, the Ajuga cham[ae]pitys.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bugle : \Bu"gle\, n. [See Bugle a wild ox.]
1. A horn used by hunters.
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in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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