[byoo-guh
l] 
noun, verb, -gled, -gling.| 1. | a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals. |
| 2. | to sound a bugle. |
| 3. | (of bull elks) to utter a rutting call. |
| 4. | to call by or with a bugle: to bugle reveille. |
[byoo-guhl] | 1. | Also called bugle bead. a tubular glass bead used for ornamenting dresses. |
| 2. | Also, bugled. ornamented with bugles. |
[aj-uh-guh] | any of various plants of the genus Ajuga, having usually blue flowers and often cultivated as a ground cover. |
| bu·gle 1 (byōō'gəl) n. Music A brass wind instrument somewhat shorter than a trumpet and lacking keys or valves. intr.v. bu·gled, bu·gling, bu·gles
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin būculus, steer, diminutive of bōs, ox; see gwou- in Indo-European roots.] bu'gler n. |
| bu·gle 2 (byōō'gəl) n. A tubular glass or plastic bead used to trim clothing. [Origin unknown.] |
| bu·gle 3 (byōō'gəl) n. Any of several creeping Old World herbs of the genus Ajuga in the mint family, having opposite leaves, square stems, and terminal spikes of purplish to white flowers. Also called bugleweed. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin būgula (perhaps influenced by būglōssa, bugloss), from Latin būgillō.] |