Bugle

Bu·gle

Bugle

n.
  1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

Bugle

n.
  1. A horn used by hunters.
  2. 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle. (Mus.)

Bugle

n.
  1. An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

Bugle

a.
  1. Jet black.

Bugle

n.
  1. A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. (Bot.)

Phrases & Compounds

Yellow bugle
the Ajuga chamæpitys.