bugle

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So the empire waited and debated, but the sounds of the bugle were already breaking through the wrangles of the politicians, and calling the nation to be tested once more by that hammer of war and adversity by which Providence still fashions us to some nobler and higher end CHAPTER 4.

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  1. noun Music A brass wind instrument somewhat shorter than a trumpet and lacking keys or valves.
  2. intransitive verb Music To sound a bugle.
  3. intransitive verb To give forth a deep, prolonged sound similar to the bay of a hound.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin būculus, steer, diminutive of bōs, ox; see gwou- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Origin unknown.
  3. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin būgula (perhaps influenced by būglōssa, bugloss), from Latin būgillō.

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  1. Early modern English also bewgle, bowgle, from Middle English bugle, bugylle, bogylle, from Old French bugle, a wild ox (later bugler, French beugler, bellow), from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos, an ox, = English cow.
  2. from Middle English bugle, bugul, etc., a bugle-horn, as if short for bugle-horn, q. v.; cf. French bugle, a bugle-horn.
  3. from bugle, n.
  4. Prob. from Middle Latin bugolus, a female ornament, prob. from German bügel, a bent or curved strip of metal, ring, stirrup, = Icelandic bygill, a stirrup: see bail, boul.
  5. from French bugle = Spanish Portuguese bugula = Italian bugola (Mahn), irreg. from Late Latin bugillo, a plant, also called ajuga reptans; origin unknown. The late Middle English bugille is glossed buglossa: see bugloss.
 

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