bugles

Noun (1)

bugle (plural bugles)

1. A horn used by hunters.
2. A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
3. The sound of something that bugles.
   • the bugle of an elk
4. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
   • Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, page 88

Noun (2)

bugle (plural bugles)

1. A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.
   • How well so ever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I still found them secretly attached to all their former finery: they still loved laces, ribbands, bugles and catgut […]1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC

Noun (3)

bugle (plural bugles)

1. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

   Synonyms:

   bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine, common bugle

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