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Meaning of 'bugle' (Webster Dictionary)

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conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.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

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