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.
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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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
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Bu"gle, n. [LL. bugulus a woman's ornament: cf. G. bugel a bent piece of metal or wood, fr. the same root as G. biegen to bend, E. bow to bend.]
An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
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Bu"gle, a. [From Bugle a bead.]
Jet black.
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Bugle eyeballs."
Shak.
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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 chamaepitys.
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