bugle

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bugle a wild ox. ] 1. A horn used by hunters. [ 1913 Webster ]

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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. bugulus a woman's ornament: cf. G. bügel 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Bugle a bead. ] Jet black. “Bugle eyeballs.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpitys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ornamented with bugles. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A bugle. [ 1913 Webster ]

One blast upon his bugle horn
Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A drinking vessel made of horn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who plays on a bugle. [ 1913 Webster ]