Bugle

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Jet black.

II. Bugle ·noun A horn used by hunters.

III. Bugle ·noun A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

IV. Bugle ·noun An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

V. Bugle ·noun A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.

VI. Bugle ·noun 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet;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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