Definition of bugle Bugle

/bjuˈgʌl/ - [byugul] - bu•gle

We found 21 definitions of bugle from 6 different sources.

What does bugle mean?

Noun Plural: bugles
bugle - any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
		bugleweed
		herbaceous plant, herb aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities
		ajuga, genus ajuga bugle
		ajuga reptans, creeping bugle low rhizomatous European carpeting plant having spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in parts of United States
		ajuga genevensis, blue bugle, erect bugle upright rhizomatous perennial with bright blue flowers; southern Europe
		ajuga pyramidalis, pyramid bugle European evergreen carpeting perennial
bugle - a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
		brass instrument, brass a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
bugle - a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
Verb bugles, bugling, bugled
bugle - play on a bugle
		spiel, play speak at great length (about something)
		music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest"

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bugle (Noun)
A horn used by hunters.
bugle (Noun)
A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series .
bugle (Noun)
An often- cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
bugle (Noun)
Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
bugle (Noun)
A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.
bugle (Verb)
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

bugle (n.)
A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
bugle (n.)
A horn used by hunters.
bugle (n.)
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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
bugle (n.)
An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
bugle (a.)
Jet black.
bugle (n.)
A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.

bugle
bū′gl, Bugle-horn, bū′gl-horn, n. a hunting-horn, originally a buffalo-horn: a treble musical instrument, usually made of copper, like the trumpet, but having the bell less expanded and the tube shorter and more conical: (Spens.) a buffalo or wild ox—dim. Bū′glet.—v.i. Bū′gle, to sound a bugle.—n. Bū′gler, one who plays upon the bugle. [O. Fr. bugle;—L. buculus, dim. of bos, an ox.]
bugle
bū′gl, n. a slender elongated kind of bead, usually black.—adj. (Shak.) like bugles. [Prob. conn. with Low L. bugulus; prob. obscurely conn. with Dut. beugel, a ring.]
bugle
bū′gl, n. a palæarctic genus of plants of the natural order Labiatæ, with blue or sometimes white or purple flowers. [Fr., It. bugola—Low L. bugula, bugillo.]

bugle
The old Saxon horn, now used by all infantry regiments. By its soundings their manœuvres are directed, either in advancing, skirmishing, or retreating.