bugle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Music A brass wind instrument somewhat shorter than a trumpet and lacking keys or valves.
2. v. Music To sound a bugle.
3. v. To give forth a deep, prolonged sound similar to the bay of a hound.
4. n. A tubular glass or plastic bead used to trim clothing.
5. 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.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
2. n. A young bull.
3. n. A hunting-horn. Also called bugle-horn.
4. n. A military musical wind-instrument of brass, once or more curved, sometimes furnished with keys or valves, so as to be capable of producing all the notes of the scale.
5. To sound a bugle.
6. n. A shining elongated glass bead, usually black, used in decorating female apparel: as, “bugle-bracelet,”
7. Having the color of a glass bugle; jet-black: as, “bugle eyeballs,”
8. n. The popular English name for a common low labiate plant of Europe, Ajuga reptans. The yellow bugle is A. Chamæpitys, and the mountain bugle A. pyramidalis.

Wiktionary

1. n. music a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
2. n. An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
3. n. anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end
4. n. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
5. v. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
2. n. A horn used by hunters.
3. n. (Mus.) 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
4. n. An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
5. adj. Jet black.
6. n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
2. n. a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
3. n. any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
4. v. play on a bugle