Bugle
['bjuːg(ə)l] or ['bjuɡl]
Definition
(noun.) a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares.
(noun.) a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration.
(noun.) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover.
(verb.) play on a bugle.
Checker: Millicent--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
(n.) A horn used by hunters.
(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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
(n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
(a.) Jet black.
(n.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
Edited by Alexander
Definition
n. a paléŽrctic genus of plants of the natural order Labiat with blue or sometimes white or purple flowers.
n. a slender elongated kind of bead usually black.—adj. (Shak.) like bugles.
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.
Checked by Clifton
Unserious Contents or Definition
To hear joyous blasts from a bugle, prepare for some unusual happiness, as a harmony of good things for you is being formed by unseen powers. Blowing a bugle, denotes fortunate dealings.
Checker: Ramona
Examples
- He is negotiating with the Jew, I suppose, replied De Bracy, coolly; probably the howls of Isaac have drowned the blast of the bugle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That bugle-sound announces something which may require my presence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And at this moment, Wamba winded the bugle, for the whole had passed so speedily, that he had not time to do so sooner. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He then gave breath to the bugle, and winded once and again the call which he described, until the knight had caught the notes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is the bugle of Malvoisin, said the Miller, starting to his feet, and seizing his bow. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Knight undid the clasp of the baldric, and indulged his fellow-traveller, who immediately hung the bugle round his own neck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Voices were there, it seemed to meunnumbered; instruments varied and countless--bugle, horn, and trumpet I knew. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Three mots on this bugle will, I am assured, bring round, at our need, a jolly band of yonder honest yeomen. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- As we approached Cuantla bugles sounded the assembly, and soldiers rushed from the guard-house in the edge of the town towards us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The bugles had wakened everybody: there was no use in concealment now. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A gathering call ran among the faculties, their bugles sang, their trumpets rang an untimely summons. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Edited by Emily